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Earthquakes and coseismic surface faulting on the Iranian Plateau : a historical, social and physical approach /
Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau is a comprehensive and well-illustrated multi-disciplinary research work that analyzes the human and physical aspects of the active faults and large-magnitude earthquakes since ancient times on the Iranian Plateau. The long-term histo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; Amsterdam, Netherlands :
Elsevier,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Developments in earth surface processes ;
Volume 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau: A Historical, Social and Physical Approach; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Organization of the Book; Earthquake Origin Time; Earthquake Magnitude; Earthquake Centroid Depth; Active Faults and Meizoseismal Areas of Earthquakes; Transliteration; Chronology; Final Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical Perspective; Synopsis: Root Causes of the Seismic Past, Present, and Future; Overview: Targeting the Root Causes of the Regional Earthquake-Fault Vulnerability
- Part One: Earthquake Hazard Warning in Oral Traditon and Literature on the Iranian PlateauChapter 1: Place Names and Linguistic Traces Referring to Prehistoric Earthquakes: Earthquake Hazard Warnings in Oral Trad ... ; 1.1. Earthquake Terms Used in Local Dialects on the Iranian Plateau and the Neighboring Regions; 1.2. Place Names Referring to Frequent Earthquakes; 1.3. Place Names Referring to Earthquake Faulting and Fracturing, Fractured or Broken Mountains, and Caves; 1.4. Place Names Referring to Frequent Occurrences of Landslides, Slumpings, Rockfalls, Rockslides, and Earth Flows
- 1.5. Place Names Referring to Earthquake Springs1.6. Place Names Referring to Deflected River Course; 1.7. Overview; Chapter 2: Earthquake Myths; 2.1. Chashmag-e Div [Storm-Monster/Devil Chashmag] in Pagan Iran (Pre-1200 BCE); 2.2. Subterranean Writhing of Evil Spirit in Conflict with the Earth: Proto-Zoroastrian Tradition (Pre-1200 BCE); 2.3. Maruts, V�arun�a, and Indra (in the Rig Ved�a and the Avest�a; ca. 1500-1200 BCE); 2.4. Shackled Giant/Paqua Causes Earthquake at Mount Elbruz [Elbrus, Alborz], Q�af Volcano, Caucasus
- 2.5. Earthquakes as a Fundamental Cause of Mountain Building in the Zoroastrian Iranian Creation Myth (~1200 BCE)2.6. The Shaking of the Solid Sky Made of Stone (~1200 BCE); 2.7. Tremors Caused by Srosh's Strike; 2.8. Attribution of Earthquakes to the Movements of Animals Holding the Earth; 2.9. Apocalyptic Earthquakes and the Iranian Image of an Eschatological Leveling of the Mountains; 2.10. Earthquakes in the Sumerian Texts [ca. Eighteenth Century BCE]; 2.10.1. Isht�ar's Revenge and the Earth-Shaking Bull Monster of Heaven in the Epic of Gilgamesh [ca. 2700 BCE]
- 2.10.2. Goddess In�ann�a Destroys the Ebih Mountain with Earthquake and Fire at the Rebel Lands [The Western Z�agros Mountains]2.10.3. Sumerian Demon Asag Makes a Rent in the Earth at the Mountainland [the Western Z�agros Mountains] (ca. Eighteenth C ...; 2.10.4. Ishkur's Wrath and Earth Shaking (ca. Eighteenth Century BCE); 2.10.5. The Lament for Sumer and Urim; 2.10.6. The Cursing of the City of Agade by Enlil [ca. 2190-2154 BCE]; 2.10.7. The Death of Ur-Namma [ca. 2112-2095 BCE]; 2.10.8. A Hymn to Utu; 2.11. Earthquakes in the Babylonian Texts [ca. 1830-1531]