Furious earth : the science and nature of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis

著者

• Prager, Ellen J.

書誌事項

Furious earth : the science and nature of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis

Ellen J. Prager ; with Kate Hutton, Costas Synolakis, Stanley Williams

McGraw-Hill, c2000

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book presents the science behind the earth's most catastrophic phenomena. If our planet is a sleeping giant, it slumbers fitfully. Earth's fabric is shifting, creaking, and groaning. Our familiar landscape bears the scars of hidden forces at work deep beneath it. "Furious Earth" contains the latest science on these forces and the cataclysmic phenomena they produce - earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsumanis. Now, hard-won knowledge of these phenomena, gained from often dangerous efforts to understand and predict the unpredictable, is presented here by experts. The scientific contributors include: Stanley Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Vulcanology, Arizona State University, on volcanoes; Kate Hutton, Ph.D., Seismologist, California State Institute of Technology, on earthquakes; and Costas Synolakis, Ph.D., Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, on tsunamis.

目次

The Underlying and Dynamic Earth. Earthquakes. Volcanoes. Tsunamis. Selected Sources, Readings, and Web Sites. Endnote, Contributors, and Acknowledgements.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA54033266
• ISBN:
  • 0071351612
• LCCN: 99048386
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xv, 235 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QE534.2
  • DC21 : 551.2
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Earthquakes
  • LCSH : Volcanoes
  • LCSH : Tsunamis