Book Description
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
Author : Marcia Bjornerud
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 069120263X
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Earth sciences
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Author : Myron L. Fuller
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1914
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Author : Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Geology
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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Geophysics
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Earth sciences
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Author : Jerry Thompson
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 158243879X
There is a crack in the earth's crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic time—at least thirty–six major events in the last 10,000 years. This fault generates a monster earthquake about every 500 years. And the monster is due to return at any time. It could happen 200 years from now, or it could be tonight. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004. It will generate the same earthquake we saw in Sumatra, at magnitude nine or higher, sending crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any California quake. Slamming into Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, it will send tidal waves to the shores of Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, damaging the economies of the Pacific Rim countries and their trading partners for years to come. In light of recent massive quakes in Haiti, Chile, and Mexico, Cascadia's Fault not only tells the story of this potentially devastating earthquake and the tsunamis it will spawn, it also warns us about an impending crisis almost unprecedented in modern history.
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Geology
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Page : 684 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Industries
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Page : 822 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1850
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