Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes (4th Edition)
- ISBN-10
- 0321958055
- ISBN-13
- 9780321958051
- Series
- Natural Hazards
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 575
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-05-20
- Publisher
- Pearson Higher Education AU
- Authors
- Edward Keller, Duane DeVecchio
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Olive, W. W., Chleborad, A. F., Frahme, C.W., Schlocker, J., Schneider, R. R., and Schuster, R. L. 1989. Swelling clays map of the ... J. Ehlen, W. C. Haneberg, and R. A. Larson, pp. 87–99. ... Lutgens, F. K., and Tarbuck, E.J. 2007.
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