Geosystems: An Introduction to Physical Geography

693 Pages·2014·183.765 MB·English

by  Robert W. Christopherson&Ginger H. Birkeland

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Geosystems
Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the central Philippines on the morning of November 7, 2013, with sustained
winds over 306 kmph (190 mph), the strongest ever recorded for a tropical cyclone at landfall using satellite measure-
ments. In Geosystems, we discuss tropical cyclones and other severe weather events on Earth, including the effects
of Superstorm Sandy on the U.S. East Coast in 2012 (see Focus Study 8.1 in Chapter 8). [NOAA.]
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Sandstone cliffs along the Virgin River in Zion National Park, Utah. [GeoStills/Alamy.]
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dedication
To the students and teachers of Earth, and
to all the children and grandchildren, for it
is their future and home planet.
The land still provides our genesis, how-
ever we might like to forget that our food
comes from dank, muddy Earth, that the
oxygen in our lungs was recently inside a
leaf, and that every newspaper or book
we may pick up is made from the hearts of
trees that died for the sake of our imag-
ined lives. What you hold in your hands
right now, beneath these words, is conse-
crated air and time and sunlight.
—Barbara Kingsolver
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