Number of the records: 1
Waking the giant
Title statement Waking the giant : how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes / Bill McGuire Personal name McGuire, Bill, 1954- (author) Publication Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012 Phys.des. 1 online zdroj (xiv, 303 stran) ISBN 9780191633874 (online) 0191633879 (online) 1280698802 9781280698804 Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Storm after the Calm; 2 Once and Future Climate; 3 Nice Day for an Eruption; 4 Bouncing Back; 5 Earth in Motion; 6 Water, Water, Everywhere; 7 Reawakening the Giant; Selected Sources and Further Reading; Index. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Note Způsob přístupu: World Wide Web Defekty eBooks on EBSCOhost Subj. Headings klimatické změny climate changes * zemětřesení earthquake * tsunami tsunamis * sopečné erupce volcanic eruptions Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Conspect 551 - Geologie. Meteorologie. Klimatologie UDC 551.583 , 550.34 , 551.466.6 , 551.211/.214 , (0.034.2:08) Country Anglie Language angličtina Document kind Electronic sources URL http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=447960 book
Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our civilisation has grown and thrived. One of the most dynamic periods in Earth history saw rocketing temperatures melt the great ice sheets like butter on a hot summer'sday; feeding torrents of freshwater into ocean basins that rapidly filled to present levels.
Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations; 1 The Storm after the Calm; 2 Once and Future Climate; 3 Nice Day for an Eruption; 4 Bouncing Back; 5 Earth in Motion; 6 Water, Water, Everywhere; 7 Reawakening the Giant; Selected Sources and Further Reading; Index.
Number of the records: 1