Plate tectonics and great earthquakes : 50 years of earth-shaking events /
Lynn R. Sykes.
Bok Engelsk 2019 L. R. Sykes
| Omfang | xii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ;
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| Opplysninger | Transform faults : my road to seafloor spreading, continental drift, and plate tectonics -- Childhood, high school, MIT, and Columbia University -- Earthquakes along fracture zones and mid-oceanic ridges, 1963-1965 -- Earthquakes at subduction zones, 1965-1967 -- Subduction, plate tectonics, and the new global tectonics, 1967-1969 -- Earthquakes in the Caribbean and Alaska -- Long-term earthquake prediction, seismic gaps : Alaska, Mexico, and South America -- The 1906 earthquake and long-term prediction for California -- My work with the U.S. National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council -- Japanese earthquakes and the Fukushima nuclear disaster -- Earthquakes in the eastern and central United States -- Earthquake risks to nuclear power reactors : Indian Point and North Anna -- Nuclear power reactors in the United States : lessons learned from the Fukushima disaster -- Travels to earthquake countries and a trip to the Earth's mantle in Newfoundland -- Advances in long-term earthquake prediction : future prospects.
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| ISBN | 9780231186889
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