The Little Book of Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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Author(s): R. Schick
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 038795287X
Format: hardback
164pp
Price: £14.00, $20.00, €19.95 + VAT
Review Date: 04 September 2002
Review: This handbook for the lay reader describes the intermittent but rapid tectonic processes that lead to earthquakes and volcanism. It begins by exploring the structure and heat budget of the Earth and the resulting dynamic processes, and goes on to examine the historical development of our understanding of earthquakes and volcanoes. It discusses their fundamental causes and effects and the reason why they occur in certain areas, as well as the possibility of predicting their occurrence and finding ways of protecting ourselves from them..