Catastrophes! : earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, and other earth-shattering disasters [E-Book] / Donald R. Prothero ; with illustrations by Pat Linse.
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Personal Name(s): | Prothero, Donald R., author |
Linse, Pat, illustrator | |
Imprint: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9781421401478 (e-book) |
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- Earthquakes : the Earth in upheaval
- Tsunamis : the sea rises up
- Volcanoes : the Earth's cauldron
- Landslides : gravity always wins
- Floods : raging waters
- Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons : nature on the rampage
- Tornadoes : funnels of disaster
- Blizzard : white death
- Ice ages : frozen planet
- Greenhouse planet : too hot to handle?
- Mass extinctions : when life nearly died
- Can we survive nature and our own folly?