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Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis: projects and principles for beginning geologists/ Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori

By: Levy, MatthysContributor(s): Salvadori, MarioMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009Description: viii, 136 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9781556528019Subject(s): Volcanoes | Earthquakes | Educational gamesDDC classification: 551.22

Contents:

The secrets of the Earth. The cracked egg ; Scraping plates ; The birth of mountains ; Falling towers -- If you had been there. Liquefaction -- When the ocean rolls. Convection ; Generating a tsunami ; Tsunami in a tub -- Earthquake messages. Pressure waves ; Shear waves ; The speed of waves ; Wave reflection ; Wave refraction ; The strength of water -- How strong was it? Build a seismometer ; A pendulum ; Another pendulum experiment ; The seismograph -- From myth to science. The shaking experiment ; Making predictions ; Mapping the risk -- Can animals predict earthquakes? -- Should we fight of fool the quakes? A push-pull demonstration ; A bending demonstration ; Isolation ; Building on pads ; A pendulum isolator -- The smoking mountains. A spewing volcano ; Another volcanic eruption ; Build a cardboard volcano ; A smoking volcano ; Geothermal energy.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	551.22 LEV/E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P08435

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The secrets of the Earth. The cracked egg ; Scraping plates ; The birth of mountains ; Falling towers --
If you had been there. Liquefaction --
When the ocean rolls. Convection ; Generating a tsunami ; Tsunami in a tub --
Earthquake messages. Pressure waves ; Shear waves ; The speed of waves ; Wave reflection ; Wave refraction ; The strength of water --
How strong was it? Build a seismometer ; A pendulum ; Another pendulum experiment ; The seismograph --
From myth to science. The shaking experiment ; Making predictions ; Mapping the risk --
Can animals predict earthquakes? --
Should we fight of fool the quakes? A push-pull demonstration ; A bending demonstration ; Isolation ; Building on pads ; A pendulum isolator --
The smoking mountains. A spewing volcano ; Another volcanic eruption ; Build a cardboard volcano ; A smoking volcano ; Geothermal energy.

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