TEACH YOURSELF VOLCANOES, EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS

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TEACH YOURSELF VOLCANOES, EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS

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• Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis is the essential guide to these fascinating natural hazards.
• These three phenomena pose the most frightening geological events with which we inhabitants of planet Earth have to contend.
• This book focuses on plate tectonics before delving into the nitty-gritty of the ensuing hazards so that you soon have a clear understanding of what causes them, how they relate to each other, and how they can be predicted and, if possible, controlled.

David Rothery is a volcanologist and planetary scientist at the Open University.

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