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First edition. |
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1 online resource (777 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Developments in Earth Surface Processes, 0928-2025 ; Volume 17 |
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Developments in earth surface processes ; Volume 17.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 9, 2014). |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau: A Historical, Social and Physical Approach; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Organization of the Book; Earthquake Origin Time; Earthquake Magnitude; Earthquake Centroid Depth; Active Faults and Meizoseismal Areas of Earthquakes; Transliteration; Chronology; Final Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical Perspective; Synopsis: Root Causes of the Seismic Past, Present, and Future; Overview: Targeting the Root Causes of the Regional Earthquake-Fault Vulnerability |
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Part One: Earthquake Hazard Warning in Oral Traditon and Literature on the Iranian PlateauChapter 1: Place Names and Linguistic Traces Referring to Prehistoric Earthquakes: Earthquake Hazard Warnings in Oral Trad ... ; 1.1. Earthquake Terms Used in Local Dialects on the Iranian Plateau and the Neighboring Regions; 1.2. Place Names Referring to Frequent Earthquakes; 1.3. Place Names Referring to Earthquake Faulting and Fracturing, Fractured or Broken Mountains, and Caves; 1.4. Place Names Referring to Frequent Occurrences of Landslides, Slumpings, Rockfalls, Rockslides, and Earth Flows |
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1.5. Place Names Referring to Earthquake Springs1.6. Place Names Referring to Deflected River Course; 1.7. Overview; Chapter 2: Earthquake Myths; 2.1. Chashmag-e Div [Storm-Monster/Devil Chashmag] in Pagan Iran (Pre-1200 BCE); 2.2. Subterranean Writhing of Evil Spirit in Conflict with the Earth: Proto-Zoroastrian Tradition (Pre-1200 BCE); 2.3. Maruts, Vrun, and Indra (in the Rig Ved and the Avest; ca. 1500-1200 BCE); 2.4. Shackled Giant/Paqua Causes Earthquake at Mount Elbruz [Elbrus, Alborz], Qf Volcano, Caucasus |
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2.5. Earthquakes as a Fundamental Cause of Mountain Building in the Zoroastrian Iranian Creation Myth (~1200 BCE)2.6. The Shaking of the Solid Sky Made of Stone (~1200 BCE); 2.7. Tremors Caused by Srosh's Strike; 2.8. Attribution of Earthquakes to the Movements of Animals Holding the Earth; 2.9. Apocalyptic Earthquakes and the Iranian Image of an Eschatological Leveling of the Mountains; 2.10. Earthquakes in the Sumerian Texts [ca. Eighteenth Century BCE]; 2.10.1. Ishtr's Revenge and the Earth-Shaking Bull Monster of Heaven in the Epic of Gilgamesh [ca. 2700 BCE] |
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2.10.2. Goddess Innn Destroys the Ebih Mountain with Earthquake and Fire at the Rebel Lands [The Western Zgros Mountains]2.10.3. Sumerian Demon Asag Makes a Rent in the Earth at the Mountainland [the Western Zgros Mountains] (ca. Eighteenth C ...; 2.10.4. Ishkur's Wrath and Earth Shaking (ca. Eighteenth Century BCE); 2.10.5. The Lament for Sumer and Urim; 2.10.6. The Cursing of the City of Agade by Enlil [ca. 2190-2154 BCE]; 2.10.7. The Death of Ur-Namma [ca. 2112-2095 BCE]; 2.10.8. A Hymn to Utu; 2.11. Earthquakes in the Babylonian Texts [ca. 1830-1531] |
| Summary |
Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau is a comprehensive and well-illustrated multi-disciplinary research work that analyzes the human and physical aspects of the active faults and large-magnitude earthquakes since ancient times on the Iranian Plateau. The long-term historical, archaeological, and sociological record of earthquakes discussed here gives insight into earthquake magnitudes, recurrences, fault segmentation, clustering, and patterns of coseismic ruptures from prehistoric times to the present. The first part of the book examines oral traditions. |
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Geology -- Iran.
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Earthquakes -- Iran.
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Surface fault ruptures -- Iran.
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Earthquakes.
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Earthquakes |
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Géologie -- Iran.
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Ruptures de surface (Sismologie) -- Iran.
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Tremblements de terre.
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earthquakes.
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Earthquakes
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Geology
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Surface fault ruptures
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Iran https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtrYvcVTwChrDqytBvJXd
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berberian, Manuel. Earthquakes and coseismic surface faulting on the Iranian Plateau : a historical, social and physical approach. First edition. Oxford, [England] ; Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, ©2014 lxi, 714 pages Developments in earth surface processes ; Volume 17 0928-2025 9780444632920 |
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9780444632975 (e-book) |
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0444632972 (e-book) |
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9780444632920 |
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AU@ 000061144512 |
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DEBBG BV043216122 |
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DEBSZ 426012720 |
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DEBSZ 446182907 |
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DEBSZ 482466324 |
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