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Feature SummaryWhat's special about Natural Disasters, 7/e?
* Case Histories: The text aims to explain important principles about the Earth and then develop further understanding through numerous case studies.
* End-of-Chapter Learning Aids: Learning aids at the conclusion of every chapter include Terms to Remember, Questions for Review and Questions for Further Thought.
* New and Expanded Content:- Weather principles are expanded and integrated into one chapter with severe weather.
- Climate is integrated into one chapter with expanded coverage of the 20th & 21st centuries including the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports.
- Statistics and Tables are updated.
- Many changes in chapter on continental earthquakes: A) new section on Pacific Northwest U.S.; B) new section on 2006 Hawaii EQs; C) rewritten section on intraplate EQs; D) deletion of fracture-zone hypothesis.
- On volcanoes there is more emphasis on magmas, and less on rocks. New material on St. Helens, Toba, and lahar monitoring at Rainier.
- Numerous new photos and line drawings.
* Comprehensiveness: The text covers the most significant natural hazards, from geologic to oceanographic to atmospheric to astronomic to demographic, and their associated phenomena. The broad range of natural disasters topics allows each instructor to select those chapters that cover their interests and local hazards.
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