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Landslides, mudslides, & avalanches Cover Image Book

Landslides, mudslides, & avalanches / Liz Miles.

Landslides, mudslides, and avalanches (other title)
Miles, Liz, (author.).

Summary:

"A discussion of landslides, mudslides, and avalanches, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant landslides and avalanches from history"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780716699378
  • ISBN: 0716699370
  • Physical Description: 55 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm.
  • Edition: 3rd edition.
  • Publisher: Chicago, IL : World Book, Inc., [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes glossary and index.
At head of title: Library of natural disasters.
Formatted Contents Note:
Mass movement -- Landslides -- What is a landslide? -- Types of landslides -- China, 1920 -- What causes a landslide? -- What happens during a landslide? -- Landslide effects -- Alaska, 1964 -- Avoiding landslides -- Submarine landslides -- Mudslides -- What is a mudslide? -- Gansu mudslide of 2010 -- Devastating volcanic mudslides -- Rain-induced landslides -- Vargas mudslides of 1999 -- Mudslide in Oso, Washington -- Avalanches -- What is an avalanche? -- Why do avalanches happen? -- The Alps, 1999 -- What happens during an avalanche? -- The effects of avalanches -- Stevens Pass, 1910 -- Avalanche prevention and rescue -- Everest avalanches of 2014 and 2015.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 5-11.
1140L Lexile

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Landslides > Juvenile literature.
Mudslides > Juvenile literature.
Avalanches > Juvenile literature.
Natural disasters > Juvenile literature.

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