Natural Disasters
Author: Patrick Leon Abbott (Author)
Edition: 10th
Language: English
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.8 x 10.8 inches
ISBN-10: 9780078022982
ISBN-13: 978-0078022982
Publish Date: January 19, 2016
Print Length: 528 pages
Description: This ISBN: 9780078022982 is a student textbook only. It will not come with online access code. Online Access code sold separately at ISBN: 9781259684692 Natural Disasters, 10th edition focuses on explaining how the normal processes of Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. Students have a natural curiosity about natural disasters and why they occur. This text explains why natural disasters occur by interweaving the themes of Energy sources, Plate tectonics, climate change, Earth Processes, geologic time, the complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously throughout the text. Detailed and interesting Case histories are also intertwined with current content to give students a broad historical understanding of our dynamic and evolving planet.
