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The Sedimentary Record of Sea-Level Change
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ISBN: 0521538424 0521831113 9780521538428 Year: 2003 Publisher: Milton Keynes : Cambridge : The Open University, Cambridge University Press,

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This illustrated textbook describes how past changes in sea-level can be detected through an analysis of the sedimentary record, and how sequence stratigraphy techniques can provide explanations of how the sedimentary system evolves through geological time. Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses, it includes detailed case studies, set-aside focus boxes, and bulleted Questions and Answers interspersed throughout. The book is also supported by a website hosting sample pages.


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Tales of the earth : paroxysms and perturbations of the blue planet
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ISBN: 0195077857 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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In Maryland, late in the spring of 1816, the snow fell brown, and blue, and even red. Brown snow fell in Hungary that year, and in the village of Taranto in southern Italy, where any snow is rare, the red and yellow snow caused great alarm. In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without aSummer. Crops failed throughout America, the price of corn and wheat soared, and farmers (lacking feed) sold off livestock, bringing about a collapse in beef and pork prices. In Western Europe, it was even worse, a major disaster, with food riots and armed groups raiding bakeries and grain markets.This turmoil followed a catastrophic volcanic eruption a year earlier on the other side of the world--the April 1815 explosion of the volcano called Tambora, on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa--a blast heard almost a thousand miles away in Sumatra.In Tales of the Earth, Charles Officer and Jake Page describe some of the great events of environmental history, from natural catastrophes such as the Tambora eruption, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (the greatest in recorded history), and the ice ages, to disasters such as the nuclear falloutfrom Chernobyl, acid rain, and the progressive depletion of the ozone layer. Officer and Page present much of their narrative through eye-witness accounts or through the commentary of prominent figures (in discussing the Lisbon earthquake, for instance, they recount the famous clash between Voltaireand Rousseau over the meaning of the disaster, and in discussing the Black Plague, they quote Boccaccio, whose Decameron was set during "the late deadly pestilence"). The authors provide fascinating discussions of meteorites and comets; of the demise of mammoths, mastodons, and dinosaurs; and ofgreat floods that have swept the earth.But if nature can make trouble for humanity, Officer and Page show that human activity can also make trouble for nature. They examine the depletion of natural resources (we burn coal and oil at millions of times their natural rate of production), air pollution in such major urban areas as LosAngeles and London (where the Killer Smog of 1952 caused the death of some four thousand people), and the pollution of major waterways, like the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie. And they explore the global impact of such phenomena as depletion of the ozone layer, acid rain, population growth, and thegreenhouse effect.Ranging from catastrophic eruptions at Santorini and Krakatoa to manmade disasters such as the mercury poisoning in Japan's Minamata Bay, Tales of the Earth will interest anyone concerned with the environment and the natural world.


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Design for flooding : architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to flooding and climate change.
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ISBN: 9780470475645 Year: 2011 Publisher: Hoboken Wiley

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Architecture and climate --- Flood damage prevention --- City planning --- -Environmental management. --- Climatic changes --- 627.51 --- 502.58 --- 556.18 --- 551.461.2 --- 711.4 --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- Flood control --- Floods --- Hazard mitigation --- Architecture --- Climate and architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Flood defences --- Damage to nature from natural causes. Natural disasters. Earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood etc. --- Water management. Applied hydrology. Human control of hydrologic conditions --- Sea level (regardless of tides) --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Government policy --- Climatic factors --- Influence of climate --- Architecture and climate. --- Climatic changes. --- Environmental management. --- Flood damage prevention. --- Ruimtelijke planning en ruimtelijk ontwerp --- Environmental aspects. --- Ontwerp --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- 551.461.2 Sea level (regardless of tides) --- 556.18 Water management. Applied hydrology. Human control of hydrologic conditions --- 502.58 Damage to nature from natural causes. Natural disasters. Earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood etc. --- 627.51 Flood defences --- Ontwerp. --- Environmental management --- Damage to nature from natural causes. Natural disasters. Earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood etc --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Global environmental change

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