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010      2004004389 
020    0816049734 
024 3  9780816049738 
035    (OCoLC)54500373 
035    (Sirsi) i0816049734 
040    DLC|beng|cDLC|dXY4|dGPI 
042    pcc 
049    GPIA 
050 00 QE5|b.K85 2005 
082 00 550/.3|222 
100 1  Kusky, Timothy M. 
245 10 Encyclopedia of earth science /|cTimothy Kusky. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bFacts on File,|c[2005] 
264  4 |c©2005 
300    xiii, 510 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c29 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Entries A-Z -- Feature 
       essays: Coping with sea-level rise in coastal cities -- 
       Gaia Hypothesis -- Desertification and climate change -- 
       Earthquake warning systems -- Loma Prieta earthquake, 1989
       -- Mississippi River Basin and the Midwest floods of 1927 
       and 1993 -- Age of the earth -- Formation of the earth and
       solar system -- Galveston Island Hurricane, 1900 -- Is 
       there life on Mars? -- Lahars of Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia,
       1985 -- History of ocean exploration -- World's oldest 
       Ophiolite -- Homo Sapiens Sapiens and Neandertal migration
       and relations in the ice ages -- Is your home safe from 
       radon? -- Why is seawater blue? -- Seismology and earth's 
       internal structure -- Tsunami hazards -- Volcanoes and 
       plate tectonics. 
650  0 Earth sciences|vEncyclopedias. 
856 41 |3Table of contents 
856 41 |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004004389.html 
994    02|bGPI