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_d153654
020 _a9781556528019
040 _cCUS
082 _a551.22
_bLEV/E
100 _aLevy, Matthys
245 0 _aEarthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis: projects and principles for beginning geologists/
_cMatthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
260 _aChicago:
_bChicago Review Press,
_c2009.
300 _aviii, 136 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
505 _aThe 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.
650 _aVolcanoes
650 _aEarthquakes
650 _aEducational games
700 _aSalvadori, Mario
942 _cWB16