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Cataclysms

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Author : Norma Hickox
language : en
Publisher: Book World/Blue Star
Release Date : 1996-03

Cataclysms written by Norma Hickox and has been published by Book World/Blue Star this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03 with Nature categories.

In the mid 80's, predictions of catastrophic earth changes surfaced and the word went out that our days on Earth were numbered. Hickox, too, received such messages, but then, her visions began to change and she discovered that she was not seeing visions of the future, but of the past! Cataclysms ...a Must read for everyone concerned about the coming days of darkness!

Cataclysms

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Author : Dan Diner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Cataclysms written by Dan Diner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.

Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on the legendary stairs of Odessa and watches as events between the Baltic and the Aegean pass in review, unfolding in space and time between 1917 and 1989, while evoking the nineteenth century as an interpretative backdrop. Influenced by continental historical, legal, and social thought, Dan Diner views the totality of world history evolving from an Eastern and Southeastern European angle. A work of great synthesis, Cataclysms chronicles twentieth century history as a “universal civil war” between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West. Diner’s interpretation rotates around cataclysmic events in the transformation from multinational empires into nation states, accompanied by social revolution and “ethnic cleansing,” situating the Holocaust at the core of the century’s predicament. Unlike other Eurocentric interpretations of the last century, Diner also highlights the emerging pivotal importance of the United States and the impact of decolonization on the process of European integration.

Cataclysms And Earth History

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Author : Richard J. Huggett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Cataclysms And Earth History written by Richard J. Huggett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Nature categories.

This book explores the development of ideas about enormous floods, both gradual and catastrophic, and the role of floods in fashioning the Earth's surface. Floods of immense size are recorded in ancient myths and classical writings. Renaissance scholars believed that sea shells found on mountains were relics of Noah's Flood, and natural philosophers during the Restoration and Enlightenment proposed elaborate theories of the Earth which accounted for a universal Deluge. During the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, field evidence suggested that there had been several grand cataclysms during the course of Earth's history, the most recent of which was identified with the Noachian Cataclysm. In the nineteenth century too, a gradual inundation of continents was proposed, an idea which was taken up by proponents of marine regression and transgression cycles. During the present century the notion of marine transgression has been refined. Recently, the possibility of catastrophic flooding has again been raised. The author traces the developments of each of these theories and provides a comprehensive bibliography of the exploration of these ideas through the centuries.

Cataclysms Of The Earth

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Author : Hugh Auchincloss Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967

Cataclysms Of The Earth written by Hugh Auchincloss Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Climatic changes categories.

Reinsurance For Catastrophes And Cataclysms

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Author : David M. Cutler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Reinsurance For Catastrophes And Cataclysms written by David M. Cutler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Casualty insurance categories.

This paper examines the optimal design of insurance and reinsurance policies. We first consider reinsurance for catastrophes: risks which are large for any one insurer but not for the reinsurance market as a whole. Reinsurance for catastrophes is complicated by adverse selection. Optimal reinsurnace in the presence of adverse selection depends critically on the source of information asymmetry. When information on the probability of a loss is private but the magnitude of the loss is public optimal reinsurance employs a deductible-style deductible-style excess-of-loss policy, and when is is private but the proba- bility of a loss is common, optimal reinsurance covers small and large risks, but makes the primary insurer responsible for moderate risks. There is a dramatic divergence between these designs, which suggests that traditional approaches to design may be misguided. We then consider reinsurance for cata- clysms: risks that are so large that a loss can threaten the solvency of re- insurance such as a major earthquake, while others derive from common risks-changes in conditions that affect many individuals-such as the liability revolution or or escalating medical care costs. We argue that cataclysms must be reinsured in either broad securities markets or by the government. Beyond their one- period loss potential, cataclysms pose another risk: risk levels change over time. A simulation model traces the implications of evolving risk levels for long-term patterns of losses and premiums, where the latter reflect learning learning about loss distributions. Premium risk emerges as an important part of risk, which reinsurance and primary insurance markets do not adequately diversify."

Earth Cataclysms

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Author : C. Beekhuis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962

Earth Cataclysms written by C. Beekhuis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Continental drift categories.

Cataclysms

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Author : Michael R. Rampino
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-22

Cataclysms written by Michael R. Rampino and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-22 with Science categories.

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other fauna from the Earth 66 million years ago. Scientists found evidence for this theory in a “crater of doom” on the Yucatán Peninsula, showing that our planet had once been a target in a galactic shooting gallery. In Cataclysms, Michael R. Rampino builds on the latest findings from leading geoscientists to take “neocatastrophism” a step further, toward a richer understanding of the science behind major planetary upheavals and extinction events. Rampino recounts his conversion to the impact hypothesis, describing his visits to meteor-strike sites and his review of the existing geological record. The new geology he outlines explicitly rejects nineteenth-century “uniformitarianism,” which casts planetary change as gradual and driven by processes we can see at work today. Rampino offers a cosmic context for Earth’s geologic evolution, in which cataclysms from above in the form of comet and asteroid impacts and from below in the form of huge outpourings of lava in flood-basalt eruptions have led to severe and even catastrophic changes to the Earth’s surface. This new geology sees Earth’s position in our solar system and galaxy as the keys to understanding our planet’s geology and history of life. Rampino concludes with a controversial consideration of dark matter’s potential as a triggering mechanism, exploring its role in heating Earth’s core and spurring massive volcanism throughout geologic time.

Cataclysms On The Columbia

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Author : John Eliot Allen
language : en
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Release Date : 1991

Cataclysms On The Columbia written by John Eliot Allen and has been published by Timber Press (OR) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Nature categories.

For years the formation of the Grand Coulee remained a mystery until J Harlen Bretz set out to prove that the Columbia River basin was the site of huge floods 15,000 years ago that covered 16,000 square miles to depths of hundreds of feet & created the landscape we see today.

Earth Epochs

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Author : John M. Jensen Jr.
language : en
Publisher: John Jensen
Release Date :

Earth Epochs written by John M. Jensen Jr. and has been published by John Jensen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

Earth Epochs looks at major cataclysms across the Holocene, the Earth's Axis Tilt event of 3,448 YBP and its world wide cataclysm. And the Last Great Cataclysm, 7000 Years ago and its catastrophic effects. It also reviews in detail the Younger-Dryas event of 12,900 YBP. In addition, it also makes the case for Giant Humans in the Historical Record as well Dinosaurs in the Historic Record.

Colonial Cataclysms

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Author : Bradley Skopyk
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14

Colonial Cataclysms written by Bradley Skopyk and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with History categories.

The contiguous river basins that flowed in Tlaxcala and San Juan Teotihuacan formed part of the agricultural heart of central Mexico. As the colonial project rose to a crescendo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Indigenous farmers of central Mexico faced long-term problems standard historical treatments had attributed to drought and soil degradation set off by Old World agriculture. Instead, Bradley Skopyk argues that a global climate event called the Little Ice Age brought cold temperatures and elevated rainfall to the watersheds of Tlaxcala and Teotihuacan. With the climatic shift came cataclysmic changes: great floods, human adaptations to these deluges, and then silted wetlands and massive soil erosion. This book chases water and soil across the colonial Mexican landscape, through the fields and towns of New Spain’s Native subjects, and in and out of some of the strongest climate anomalies of the last thousand or more years. The pursuit identifies and explains the making of two unique ecological crises, the product of the interplay between climatic and anthropogenic processes. It charts how Native farmers responded to the challenges posed by these ecological rifts with creative use of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds, environmental engineering, and conflict within and beyond the courts. With a new reading of the colonial climate and by paying close attention to land, water, and agrarian ecologies forged by farmers, Skopyk argues that colonial cataclysms—forged during a critical conjuncture of truly unprecedented proportions, a crucible of human and natural forces—unhinged the customary ways in which humans organized, thought about, and used the Mexican environment. This book inserts climate, earth, water, and ecology as significant forces shaping colonial affairs and challenges us to rethink both the environmental consequences of Spanish imperialism and the role of Indigenous peoples in shaping them.