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| List of figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Internal Processes | |
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| Supervolcanoes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Mt. Toba Eruption (73,000 BP) | |
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| The Thera (Santorini) Eruption in the Aegean Sea (1600 BCE) | |
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| Mt. Tambora (1815) and Krakatau (1883) | |
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| The Mt. Pinatubo Eruption (1991) | |
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| A Threatening Future Scenario | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Earthquakes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The San Francisco Earthquake (1906) | |
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| The Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) | |
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| The Haitian Earthquake (2010) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Tsunamis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Lisbon; Portugal: The Quadruple Disaster (1755) | |
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| The Lituya Bay Mega-Tsunami (1958) | |
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| The Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake (2004) | |
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| The T�hoku (Japan) Tsunami (2011) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Surficial Processes | |
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| Fire | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Burning of Rome (68 CE) | |
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| Vie Great Fire of London (1666) | |
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| The Chicago and Peshtigo Fires (1871) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Floods | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Central China Floods (1931) | |
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| The Dutch Flood Disaster (1953) | |
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| The Bangladesh Floods (1997-98) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Landslides | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Turtle Mountain Landslide, Canada (1903) | |
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| The Aberfan Landslide, Wales (1966) | |
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| The Ancash Earthquake and Landslide, Peru (1970) | |
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| The Southern Leyte Landslide, the Philippines (2006) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Pandemic Diseases | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Bubonic Plague (1347-51 and After) | |
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| The Great Influenza Pandemic (1918-20) | |
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| HIV/AIDS (1985-) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Atmospheric Processes | |
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| Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys (1935) | |
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| The Bhola Cyclone (1970) | |
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| Super-Typhoon Nina (1975) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Famines and Droughts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Irish Potato Famine (1845-51) | |
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| Vie "Dust Bowl" Drought in the American West (1930-40) | |
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| The Great Leap Forward Chinese Famine (1958-61) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Meteorite Impacts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Creation of Earth's Moon and the Origins of Meteorites | |
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| The Yucatan Chicxulub Crater, Mexico (65 MYA) | |
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| The Clovis Extinction (12,500-12,900 BP) | |
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| The Tunguska (Siberia) Event (1908) | |
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| Investigating Future Impacts | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Index | |