The big one : the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science /

The big one : the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science /

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Author / Creator:Page, Jake.
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Description:xii, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Earthquakes -- New Madrid Seismic Zone.
Earthquakes.
United States -- New Madrid Seismic Zone.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5174422
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Other authors / contributors:Officer, Charles B.
ISBN:0618341501
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reelfoot's Folly
  • Part 1. The New Madrid Quakes
  • 1.. The World Gone Mad
  • 2.. Dreams, Omens, and War
  • 3.. Pendulums and Polymaths
  • Part 2. The Earthquake Hunters
  • 4.. Myths, Maps, and Machines
  • 5.. Finding Faults
  • 6.. Intensity, Magnitude, and Stars
  • 7.. Geophysical Leaps Forward
  • Part 3. Looking Back, Looking Forward
  • 8.. Rifts, Plumes, and Reservoirs
  • 9.. The Art of Prediction
  • 10.. False Prophets
  • 11.. New Madrid Redux
  • Notes
  • Index
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