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Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards

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Informationen zum Autor Dr. João C. Duarte, Research Fellow at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Wouter P. Schellart, Associate Professor at the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Klappentext "This work is a co-publication between the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons, Inc." Zusammenfassung "This work is a co-publication between the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons! Inc." Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors vii Preface xi 1 Introduction to Plate Boundaries and Natural Hazards João C Duarte and Wouter P Schellart 1 Part I Reviews 11 2 Rifts and Rifted Margins: A Review of Geodynamic Processes and Natural Hazards Sascha Brune 13 3 Origin, Evolution, Seismicity, and Models of Oceanic and Continental Transform Boundaries Taras V Gerya 39 4 An Introduction to Convergent Margins and Their Natural Hazards Robert J Stern, David W Scholl, and Gerard Fryer 77 Part II Earthquakes and Related Natural Hazards 99 5 Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes: Advances in Our Understanding a Decade after Sumatra, 2004 Marc?]André Gutscher 101 6 Promise and Paradox: Why Improved Knowledge of Plate Tectonics Has Not Yielded Correspondingly Better Earthquake Hazard Maps Seth Stein, Mian Liu, Bruce D Spencer, and Edward M Brooks 123 7 Joint Inversion of High?]Rate GPS and Teleseismic Observations for Rupture Process of the 23 June 2014 (Mw 79) Rat Islands Archipelago, Alaska, Intermediate Depth Earthquake Lingling Ye, Thorne Lay, Hiroo Kanamori, Jeffrey T Freymueller, and Luis Rivera 149 8 Large Earthquakes and Structural Heterogeneity in Eastern Tibetan Plateau Jianshe Lei and Dapeng Zhao 167 9 Seismic Potential of Thrust?]Wrench Tectonic Interference between Major Active Faults Offshore SW Iberia: A New Explanation for the 1755 Great Lisbon Earthquake? Filipe M Rosas, João C Duarte, Wouter P Schellart, Ricardo Tomás, and Pedro Terrinha 193 10 On the Sedimentological and Historical Evidences of Seismic?]Triggered Tsunamis on the Algarve Coast of Portugal César Andrade, Maria C Freitas, Maria A Oliveira, and Pedro J M Costa 219 Part III Volcanoes and Related Natural Hazards 239 11 Growth, Demise, and Recent Eruption History of the Eastern Cobb?]Eickelberg Seamounts at the Intersection with the Juan De Fuca Ridge Robert P Dziak and Susan G Merle 241 12 The Devastating Impact of the 2010 Eruption of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia Susanna F Jenkins, Jean?]Christophe Komorowski, Peter J Baxter, Sylvain J Charbonnier, Noer Cholik, and Surono 259 13 The Tsunami Effects of a Collapse of a Volcanic Island on a Semienclosed Basin: The Pico?]São Jorge Channel in the Azores Archipelago Rachid Omira, Rui Quartau, Inês Ramalho, Maria Ana Baptista, and Neil C Mitchell 271 14 Remote Sensing of Volcanic Eruptions: From Aviation Hazards to Global Cooling Andrew T Prata 289 Index 323 ...

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Authors Joao C. Schellart Duarte
Assisted by Joao C Duarte (Editor), Joao C. Duarte (Editor), Duarte Joao C. (Editor), Wouter P Schellart (Editor), Wouter P. Schellart (Editor), Schellart Wouter P. (Editor)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2016
 
EAN 9781119053972
ISBN 978-1-119-05397-2
No. of pages 352
Series Geophysical Monograph Series
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology

SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere

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