Natural Disasters

Author: Abbott Patrick Leon

Brand: McGraw-Hill Education

Edition: 11

Number Of Pages: 560

Details: Product Description

Natural Disasters, 11th 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.

About the Author

Pat Abbott is a professor at San Diego State University

Release Date: 04-01-2019

Package Dimensions: 22x283x1261