Author : Amanda Bishop
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778715764
Awesome and destructive forces are unleashed when soil, mud, and snow are on the move. Aimed at ages 7-14, this book looks at the causes and effects, places in danger, and how people cope with these disasters. It features photographs feature famous disasters.
Author : Jan Burchett
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 143429059X
Ben and Zoe must brave sub-zero temperatures and treacherous slopes to find two lost snow leopards.
Author : Ronald I. Perla
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Avalanches
ISBN :
Deals comprehensively and practically with effects, causes and behaviour of avalanches, protection of ski areas, highways and villages, and safety and rescue.
Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822568624
In an instant, an avalanche can turn a picture-perfect winter scene into a deadly disaster. Huge sheets of snow and ice can race down a mountain at 50 miles (81 kilometers) per hour or faster. Avalanches can toss cars, snap trees, and crush buildings in their path, sometimes burying an entire village in tightly packed snow. With dramatic images and first-hand survivor stories plus the latest facts and figures this book shows you avalanche disasters up close.
Author : David McClung
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780898868098
Technical yet accessible, The Avalanche Handbook, 3rd Edition, covers the formation, character, effects, and control of avalanches; rescue techniques; and research on understanding and surviving avalanches. Illustrated with nearly 200 updated illustrations, photos and examples, the revised edition offers exhaustive information on contributing weather and climate factors, snowpack analysis, the newest transceiver search techniques, and preventative and protective measures, including avalanche zoning and control. It contains new information on the unique characteristics of alpine snow, snow slab instability, terrain variables, skier triggering of avalanches, and the nature of avalanche motion. Plus brand-new chapters on the elements of backcountry avalanche forecasting and the decision-making process.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Avalanches
ISBN :
Author : United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Climatology
ISBN :
Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 143398654X
Made of snow, ice, and rocks, avalanches can start in a variety of ways, including by people. Readers will explore the causes and effects of different kinds of avalanches through fact-filled and accessible content. Real-life photographs will engage readers while reinforcing the science concepts behind examples of modern, devastating avalanches. Enhanced by interesting fact boxes and timelines of real avalanches, readers will be guided through safety and disaster relief so they’ll be able to act if caught out in the cold when the snow starts to fall.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Hydrology
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309043352
The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined. Snow avalanches can range from small amounts of loose snow moving rapidly down a slope to slab avalanches, in which large chunks of snow break off and destroy everything in their path. Although considered a hazard in the United States since the westward expansion in the nineteenth century, in modern times snow avalanches are an increasing concern in recreational mountainous areas. However, programs for snow avalanche hazard mitigation in other countries are far ahead of those in the United States. The book identifies several steps that should be taken by the United States in order to establish guidelines for research, technology transfer, and avalanche legislation and zoning.
