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Asimov, I. (1978).
How Did We Find Out about
Earthquakes?
New York: Walker.
Aylesworth, T.G., and Aylesworth, V.L. (1983).
Moving Continents—Our Changing Earth.
Hillside,
N.J.: Enslow.
Eicher, D.L. (1976).
Geologic Time
. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ. Prentice Hall.
Eicher, D.L. (1984).
The History of the Earth’s Crust.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Fodor, R.V. (1978).
Earth in Motion: The Concept of
Plate Tectonics.
New York: William Morrow.
Iacopi, R. (1974).
Earthquake Country.
Menlo Park,
CA: Lane Book Company.
National Geographic Society. (1982).
Our Violent
Earth.
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
Poynter, M. (1990).
Earthquakes: Looking for
Answers.
Hillside, NJ: Enslow.
Walker, B. (1981).
Earthquake.
(Planet Earth series)
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books.
BOOK S
Adams, M. W., editor. (1970).
Tsunamis in the Pacific
Ocean.
Honolulu, HI: East-West Center Press.
Bolt, Bruce A. (1993).
Earthquakes.
New York: W. H.
Freeman and Co. General information on earthquakes
in a readable style. Probably the best single source
currently available.
Bolt, Bruce, A. (1982).
Inside the Earth.
San
Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co. More technical than
the later
Earthquakes,
but highly readable for adults
and advanced students. Includes excellent historical
information; portraits of Beno Gutenberg, Inge
Lehmann, and other pioneers of seismology; plus
challenging activities and exercises.
Bonini, W.E., and Bonini, R.R. (1986). “Andrija
Mohorovicic: Seventy Years Ago an Earthquake
Shook Zagreb.” In
History of Geophysics,
Vol. 2,
edited by C. Stewart Gillmor. Washington, DC:
American Geophysical Union, pp. 83-88.
Earthquake National Research Council. (1986).
Active
Tectonics.
Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
An anthology of technical discussions, part of the
Studies in Geophysics series.
Eiby, G.A. (1980).
Earthquakes.
Auckland, New
Zealand: Heineman.
Georgi, Johannes. (1934).
Mid-Ice: The Story of the
Wegener Expedition to Greenland.
London, England:
K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., Ltd.
Gere, J.M., and Shah, H.C.
Terra Non Firma:
Understanding and Preparing for Earthquakes.
New
York: W.H. Freeman.
Gubbins, David. (1990).
Seismology and Plate
Tectonics.
New York: Cambridge University Press. An
undergraduate textbook. Readable, with useful
illustrations, many advanced math activities, and some
60 seismograms.
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