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The big one : the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science / Jake Page and Charles Officer.
Author
Page, Jake
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Description
xii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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ReCAP - Remote Storage
QE535.2.U6 P34 2004
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Earthquakes
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New Madrid Seismic Zone
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Officer, Charles B.
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Summary note
"In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of trees exploded, and some 1,500 people - in what was then a sparsely populated wilderness - were killed. A region the size of Texas, centered in Missouri and Arkansas, was rent apart, and the tremors reached as far as Montreal. Forget the 1906 earthquake - this set of quakes constituted the Big One." "Jake Page and Charles Officer rely on historical accounts and the latest scientific findings to tell a long-forgotten story in which the naturalist John James Audubon, the Shawnee chief Tecumsch, scientists, and charlatans all play roles."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Reelfoot's folly
Pt. 1. The new Madrid quakes
1. The world gone mad
2. Dreams, omens, and war
3. Pendulums and polymaths
Pt. 2. The earthquakes hunters
4. Myths, maps, and machines
5. Finding faults
6. Intensity, magnitude, and stars
7. Geophysical leaps forward
Pt. 3. Looking back, looking forward
8. Rifts, plumes, and reservoirs
9. The art of prediction
10. False prophets
11. New Madrid redux.
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ISBN
0618341501
LCCN
2004040536
OCLC
54001405
RCP
C - S
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