Author: Kaye M. Shedlock
Publisher:
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Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Investigations of the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Author: Kaye M. Shedlock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Investigations of the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Author: Kaye M. Shedlock
Publisher:
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Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Geology, Structural
Languages : en
Pages :
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The New Madrid Earthquake
Author: Myron L. Fuller
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Disaster Deferred
Author: Seth Stein
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023115139X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12, Disaster Deferred revisits these earthquakes, the legends that have grown around them, and the predictions of doom that have followed in their wake. Seth Stein clearly explains the techniques seismologists use to study Midwestern quakes and estimate their danger.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023115139X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12, Disaster Deferred revisits these earthquakes, the legends that have grown around them, and the predictions of doom that have followed in their wake. Seth Stein clearly explains the techniques seismologists use to study Midwestern quakes and estimate their danger.
The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Author: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605392X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605392X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
Investigations of the New Madrid, Missouri, Earthquake Region
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The New Madrid Earthquakes
Author: James L. Penick
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826203441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Previously published as: The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826203441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Previously published as: The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.
Proceedings of the Symposium on the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Gravity of the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Author: Victoria E. Langenheim
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Category : Gravity anomalies
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
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Category : Gravity anomalies
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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