E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten
Reihe: Springer Praxis Books
Bryant Tsunami
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-74274-6
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
The Underrated Hazard
E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten
Reihe: Springer Praxis Books
ISBN: 978-3-540-74274-6
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Tsunamis are underrated as major hazards, mainly due to the misconceptions that they occur infrequently and happen along some distant shoreline. However, evidence for past great tsunami has recently been discovered along apparently aseismic and protected coastlines, such as those of Australia and Western Europe. This is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. It can be used by a student or layperson to gain encyclopedic knowledge about tsunami.
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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1;Contents;6
2;Preface;11
3;Acknowledgments;14
4;Figures;19
5;Tables;24
6;Symbols in formulas and Greek symbols;26
7;Abbreviations and acronyms;29
8;Part I ;31
8.1;Introduction ;32
8.2;Tsnunami dynamics;56
9;Part II ;77
9.1;Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape ;78
9.2;Coastal landscape evolution ;118
10;Part III;151
10.1;Earthquake-generated tsunami ;152
10.2;Great landslides ;204
10.3;Volcanic eruptions ;242
10.4;Comets and asteroids;255
11;Part IV;294
11.1;Risk and avoidance ;295
11.2;Epilogue ;321
12;Reference ;330
13;Index ;346
