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Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems by Christoph Breitkreuz & Sergio Rocchi
epub |eng | | Author:Christoph Breitkreuz & Sergio Rocchi

In summary, mafic sills represent high-velocity and high-density sheets in sedimentary basins. Seismically, they can be viewed as homogenous, isotropic layers. The intrusions are commonly associated with a velocity aureole ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 6,2020 )
A Fire Story by Brian Fies
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Fies

ORIGINAL WEBCOMIC 153 NOTES Unless otherwise credited, all photos and artwork in A Fire Story are by the author, who mostly still draws with ink on paper. Page 37 : ...
( Category: South March 4,2020 )
THE STORM - Unabridged by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 2017-05-01 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

Fate of the Northumberland and Mary. There are an innumerable variety of deliverances besides these, which deserve a memorial to future ages; but these are noted from the letters, and ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 3,2020 )
Weather Disasters by Mark D. Williams
epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Mark D. Williams

Helpful Resources for Tsunami Preparation You can get advance warning. Should an official tsunami alert be issued, you will be notified via e-mail and/or a text message if you subscribe ...
( Category: Natural Disasters March 3,2020 )
A Wall of White by Jennifer Woodlief
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Woodlief

THIRTEEN What flies without wings, strikes without hand, and sees without eyes? The avalanche-beast! Old German folk riddle, reflecting the belief that avalanches were a product of witchcraft Around the ...
( Category: Natural Disasters February 22,2020 )
The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Jeff Goodell

On coral atolls like the Marshalls, there are no spring-fed rivers, no mountain lakes, no bucolic streams. Freshwater comes from the sky. The Marshallese collect water in rain buckets on ...
( Category: Coastal February 22,2020 )
A Storm Too Soon by Michael J. Tougias
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Tougias

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN TETHER OURSELVES TOGETHER Drowning and hypothermia are the first two obstacles that JP, Rudy, and Ben will have to overcome to stay alive through the day, but not ...
( Category: Weather February 18,2020 )
Man vs. Weather by Dennis DiClaudio
epub |eng | 2018-11-30 | Author:Dennis DiClaudio

( Category: Natural Disasters February 18,2020 )
Extinction by Paul B. Wignall
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

The first extinctions For the first few billion years of Earth history, during the Precambrian Eon, evolution was on the microbial, single-celled level. This changed around 540 million years ago ...
( Category: Paleontology January 19,2020 )
Outdoor Life by Richard Johnson
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Johnson

166 Assess a Lava Field Even if you’re pretty sure it has cooled and hardened, it’s better to detour around a lava field—because if you’re wrong, you’re toast. Literally. TREAD ...
( Category: Natural Disasters October 24,2019 )
The Drowning of Money Island by Andrew S. Lewis
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Andrew S. Lewis

KATE, MAE, AND I had been sitting on the porch for a while when Mike finally came outside, freshly cleaned. He wore a pair of jeans that were too big—they ...
( Category: Natural Disasters October 3,2019 )
The Hurricane Preparedness Handbook by Stearns Bob
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Stearns, Bob

Accordion shutters in open position. Photo by author. Another type of window protection that is gaining popularity, especially in the southern United States, is the aluminum Bahama shutter. It is ...
( Category: Natural Disasters September 20,2019 )
End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World by Bryan Walsh
epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Bryan Walsh [Walsh, Bryan]

DISEASE Twenty-First-Century Plague The existential threats I’ve covered in this book are either historical or theoretical. I haven’t lived through an asteroid strike or a supereruption or a full-scale nuclear ...
( Category: Geology September 11,2019 )
Learning From the Octopus by Rafe Sagarin
epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Rafe Sagarin [Sagarin, Rafe]

chapter seven CALLING YOUR BLUFF AND BLUFFING YOUR CALL THROUGH MY NATURAL SECURITY PROJECT, I met Dan B., an expert in surveillance and threat assessment. He is a critically important ...
( Category: Developmental Biology September 5,2019 )
The Finest Hours by Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman
epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Michael J. Tougias & Casey Sherman

Bushy-browed WOCB newsman Ed Semprini had survived the grueling drive down snow-covered Route 28. The bad weather had not let up once during the twenty-one-mile trek from Hyannis to Chatham. ...
( Category: Weather July 8,2019 )

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