- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
- Uniform Title
- Plate tectonics and great earthquakes (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Plate tectonics and great earthquakes (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Transform faults : my road to seafloor spreading, continental drift, and plate tectonics -- Childhood, high school, MIT, and Columbia University -- Earthquakes along fracture zones and mid-oceanic ridges, 1963-1965 -- Earthquakes at subduction zones, 1965-1967 -- Subduction, plate tectonics, and the new global tectonics, 1967-1969 -- Earthquakes in the Caribbean and Alaska -- Long-term earthquake prediction, seismic gaps : Alaska, Mexico, and South America -- The 1906 earthquake and long-term prediction for California -- My work with the U.S. National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council -- Japanese earthquakes and the Fukushima nuclear disaster -- Earthquakes in the eastern and central United States -- Earthquake risks to nuclear power reactors : Indian Point and North Anna -- Nuclear power reactors in the United States : lessons learned from the Fukushima disaster -- Travels to earthquake countries and a trip to the Earth's mantle in Newfoundland -- Advances in long-term earthquake prediction : future prospects.
- LCCN
- 2018054004
- OCLC
- ssj0002151797
- Author
Sykes, L. R.
- Title
Plate tectonics and great earthquakes [electronic resource] : 50 years of earth-shaking events / Lynn R. Sykes.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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