Screen LibraryFurnace of creation, cradle of destruction：a journey to the birthplace of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis
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| Published: |
AMACOM,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 242 p., [8] p. of plates: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780814409206 0814409202 |
| Index Number: | P541 |
| CLC: |
P541 P542 |
| Call Number: | P541/C525 |
| Contents: |
Includes index. Setting the scene -- Beginnings -- New battles -- Toward continental drift -- On the road to explaining volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis -- Continental drift: a theory without a cause -- New horizons -- Seafloor spreading -- The plot thickens -- The cycle of birth, life, and destruction -- Plate tectonics: the earth science "theory of everything" -- Hydrothermal activity: a new ocean world -- Plate tectonics and volcanoes -- Plate tectonics and earthquakes -- Plate tectonics and tsunamis -- Predicting and mitigating against volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. |