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Global catastrophes : a very short introduction /

Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet in the future, from global warming, and New Ice Ages, to asteroid impact, supervolcanoes, and mega-tsunami. Bill McGuire tal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGuire, Bill, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:Very short introductions ; 145.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; Preface; List of illustrations; 1 A Very Short Introduction to the Earth; 2 Global Warming: A Lot of Hot Air?; 3 The Ice Age Cometh; 4 The Enemy Within: Super-Eruptions, Giant Tsunamis, and the Coming Great Quake; 5 The Threat from Space: Asteroid and Comet Impacts; Epilogue; Appendix A: Threat Timescale; Appendix B: Geological Timescale Earth; Further reading; Index. 
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