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An edition of The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science (2004)

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"In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of trees exploded, and some 1,500 people - in what was then a sparsely populated wilderness - were killed. A region the size of Texas, centered in Missouri and Arkansas, was rent apart, and the tremors reached as far as Montreal. Forget the 1906 earthquake - this set of quakes constituted the Big One." "Jake Page and Charles Officer rely on historical accounts and the latest scientific findings to tell a long-forgotten story in which the naturalist John James Audubon, the Shawnee chief Tecumsch, scientists, and charlatans all play roles."--BOOK JACKET.

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
239

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Subjects
Earthquakes, New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812
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New Madrid Seismic Zone

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The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science
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2004, Houghton Mifflin
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Library of Congress
QE535.2.U6 P34 2004, QE535.2.U6P34 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 239 p.
Number of pages
239

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OL23272454M
Internet Archive
bigoneearthquake00page
ISBN 10
0618341501
LCCN
2004040536
OCLC/WorldCat
54001405
Library Thing
780162
Goodreads
1223125

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