Geological hazards : a sourcebook / Timothy M. Kusky

Author: Kusky, Timothy M.
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
Physical Description: ix, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

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Series

Sourcebooks on hazards and disasters

Contents

Introduction to geological hazards -- Earthquakes -- Volcanic eruptions -- Tsunami -- Mass wasting -- Streams and floods -- Coastal hazards -- Deserts, drought, and wind -- Glaciers and glaciation -- Hazards associated with geologic materials -- Natural geologic subsidence hazards -- Hazards of sudden catastrophic geologic events.

Subject(s)

Geodynamics
Natural disasters

ISBN

1573564699 (alk. paper)

Note

"An Oryx book."

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

Earth & Mineral Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the William L. and Josephine Berry Weiss Special Initiative Fund; 20023.

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