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| TITLE: |
Waking the giant : how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes / Bill McGuire. |
| ADDED TITLE: |
How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes |
| AUTHOR: |
McGuire, Bill, 1954- |
| PUBLISHED: |
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xiv, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and index. |
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"The ground beneath our feet may seem safe and solid, but earthquakes, volcanic blasts and other hazardous natural phenomena leave us in no doubt that this isn’t the case. The Earth is a dynamic planet of shifting tectonic plates that is responsive to change, particularly when there is a dramatic climate transition. We know that at the end of the last Ice Age, as the great glaciers disappeared, the release in pressure allowed the crust beneath to bounce back. |
| SUBJECT: |
Climatic changes--Environmental aspects. |
| SUBJECT: |
Earthquakes. |
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Tsunamis. |
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Volcanic eruptions. |
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