Tsunami
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-74273-9 (ISBN)
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Dr Edward Bryant is a renowned and respected tsunami researcher, writer and teacher in the areas of natural hazards and climatology. Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard was first published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. This is now out of print and CUP confirmed that all rights in the book have reverted to the author. The 2nd Edition incorporates the great Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the author focuses on geomorphology and the processes and events linked to the main causes of tsunami, namely, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and, in addition, comet and meteorite impacts.
Tsunami as a known hazard.- Tsunami dynamics.- Tsunami-formed landscapes.- Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape.- Coastal landscape evolution.- Causes of tsunami.- Earthquake-generated tsunami.- Great landslides.- Volcanic eruptions.- Comets and asteroids.- Modern risk of tsunami.- Risk and avoidance.- Epilogue.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.12.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Geophysical Sciences | Springer Praxis Books |
| Zusatzinfo | XXXIV, 330 p. 58 illus., 6 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Berlin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 984 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| Schlagworte | coast • Coastal attrition • Earthquake • Hazard • Indian Ocean • Marine • natural disaster • ocean • Oceanography • Pacific Ocean • Tsunami |
| ISBN-10 | 3-540-74273-5 / 3540742735 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-540-74273-9 / 9783540742739 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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