Natural Disasters / Edition 9

by Patrick Leon Abbott

Overview

Natural Disasters, 10th edition focuses on explaining how the normal processes of Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. Students have a natural curiosity about natural disasters and why they occur. This text explains why natural disasters occur by interweaving the themes of Energy sources, Plate tectonics, climate change, Earth Processes, geologic time, the complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously throughout the text. Detailed and interesting Case histories are also intertwined with current content to give students a broad historical understanding of our dynamic and evolving planet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900078022875
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date:	02/08/2013
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Natural Disasters and the Human PopulationChapter 3: Earthquake Geology and SeismologyChapter 5: Earthquakes throughout the United States and CanadaChapter 7: Volcano Case Histories: Killer Events Chapter 9: External Energy Fuels Weather and ClimateChapter 11: HurricanesChapter 13: FloodsChapter 15: Mass MovementsChapter 17: Impacts with Space Objects

Chapter 18: The Great Dying’s – Available in Create only (http://create.mcgraw-hill.com)