Natural Disasters
by Patrick L. Abbott · Patrick Abbott
An introductory geology textbook on how Earth processes concentrate energy into disasters: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, landslides, floods and hurricanes, explained through plate tectonics, energy sources, geologic time and detailed historical case studies of major events.
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