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Title: Agents of Chaos: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Other Natural Disasters by Stephen L. Harris ISBN: 0-87842-243-9 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Catastrophists Rejoice !
Comment: Steven Harris taken what might be thought of as pretty boring "science" stuff and written an exciting book about how unstable our stable, or at least what we percieve as stable, world can be. Students of geology might find some of this stuff "old hat" and Harris, rightly so, has targeted his book to the layman.
Focusing on the western United States, he presents a look at natural catastrophies from a geologic standpoint that have happened (focusing on recent geological past events) and how these events could (and eventually will) create chaos to us more recent earth residents. Many readers are probably familiar with the major earthquake danger in California; however, I venture that most are unaware of the types of volcanic dangers presented in this book (and you thought the only real dangers in Yellowstone National Park were bears and RVs).
My only complaints have to do with a lack of good editing. Drawing on such a large bibliography of peer-reviewed scientific literature, one wishes that Harris would have borrowed more of the rigorious editing that is a staple of the science. The chapters of the book read somewhat like individual articles with repetition of some facts (almost verbatum) in almost every chapter (no real "flow" from chapter to chapter). Ditto some of the illustrations. Several of the maps were presented without scales and captions on some illustrations were confusing. With a good re-edit my rating would be 4-stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: chaos: note that word
Comment: This highly informative book tends to undermine one's preconceptions of slow geologic processes. It turns out, that geologic change may also proceed quite quickly. Fun to read.
Mountain Press of Missoula publishes so many fine geology books (including the Roadside Geology series). However, this particular book of Stephen Harris raises exciting theoretical considerations.
If you like volcanoes, you must own this book; I am not giving you a choice.
Rating: 4
Summary: nice
Comment: I may not be majoring in geology, but I found this book to be an excellant read. I was suprised by some of the information that was presented in this book.
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Title: Furious Earth: The Science and Nature of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis by Ellen Prager ISBN: 0071351612 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 22 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes by Stephen L. Harris ISBN: 087842220X Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions. by Jelle Zeilinga De Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders ISBN: 0691050813 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Roadside Geology of Washington (Roadside Geology Series) by David D. Alt, Donald W. Hyndman ISBN: 0878421602 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Roadside Geology of Oregon (Roadside Geology Series) by David D. Alt, Donald W. Hyndman ISBN: 0878420630 Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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