Tales of the earth: paroxysms and perturbations of the blue planet
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York <<[u.a.]>>
Oxford Univ. Press
1993
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| Umfang: | XIII, 226 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0195077857 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Tales of the earth
Autor: Officer, Charles B.
Jahr: 1993
CONTENTS
PART ONE NATURE S EFFECT ON MAN
One The Earth Is Still Hot and Mobile 3
Tambora: The year without a summer; Laid:
Acid rain in Europe; Krakatoa: Colorful sunsets;
Santorini: The myth maker; Toba, Yellowstone,
and Long Valley: Gigantic eruptions
Two . . . And from Time to Time Its
Surface Moves Around 32
Haicheng and Tangshan: Chinese earthquakes
and earthquake predictions; San Francisco: Earth-
quakes along the San Andreas fault and United
States earthquake predictions; New Madrid and
Charleston: Largest earthquakes in North
America; Lisbon: All Saints Day in Portugal
Three There Have Been Frequent Flooding and
Sea-Level Change Events on Earth 59
Gilgamesh: The Flood; Scablands: Major flooding
events; New York and Miami: Relative sea-level
changes
Four . . .And Occasional Visitors from
Outer Space 82
Halley s comet: Our regular visitor; Tunguska:
Meteor impacts
CONTENTS
PART TWO CHANGES IN CLIMA TE AND LIFE ON EARTH
Five The Earth s Climate Changes on a
Variety of Time Scales 97
Little Ice Age: Advance and retreat of the glaciers;
Sahel: Alternate drought and plenty in the sub-
Sahara; Historical temperature changes: Ups and
downs, whys and wherefores; Ice Ages: Mil-
ankovitch cycles or chaos theory; Geologic clima-
tic changes: Temperature, oxygen, and carbon di-
oxide
Six . . . And on Rare Occasions There
Are Changes in Its Community
of Living Things 12 S
Pandemics: Bubonic plague; Ice Ages: Demise of
woolly mammoth and cohorts; Cretaceous/
Tertiary: The great dinosaur extinction contro-
versy; Other geologic extinctions: Similarities and
differences among the geologic extinction events
PART THREE MAN S EFFECT ON NATURE
Seven Then Along Came Man and Man Has
Effected Vast Environmental Changes
on a Local and Regional Scale 151
London and Los Angeles: Smog; Lake Erie and
Chesapeake Bay: Marine pollution; Minamata:
Toxic wastes; Chernobyl: Nuclear wastes
Eight . . . With the Potential for Equally
Great Changes on a Global Scale 180
Ozone layer depletion: Natural or anthropogenic?;
Acid rain: Acid lakes and forest devastation; Popu-
lation growth: The major unaddressed problem;
Contents
Natural resources depletion: Fossil fuels and min-
erals; Carbon dioxide emissions: Global warming
or not?
Nine The Most Fundamental Question Facing
Mankind Today Is Whether Man Can
Evolve to Live in Harmony
with Nature 204
Environmental changes and time: Geologic and hu-
man perspectives; Environmental research: A
catch-22; Local and global anthropogenic changes:
Where the problems are; Epilogue: Where do we go
from here?
References 213
Index 225
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