Earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis: projects and principles for beginning geologists/
Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
- Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009.
- viii, 136 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.