内容简介
1 A Very Short Introduction to the Earth
2 Global Warming:A Lot of Hot Air?
3 The Ice Age Cometh
4 The Enemy Within:Super-Eruptions,Giant Tsunamis,and the Coming Great Quake
5 The Threat from Space:Asteroid and Comet Impacts
Epilogue
Appendix A:Threat Timescale
Appendix B:Geological Timescale Earth
Further reading
Index
第一章 地球简介
第二章 全球变暖:大量热空气?
第三章 冰期来临
第四章 地球内部的大敌:火山超级喷发、大海啸和即将到来的大地震
第五章 来自太空的威胁:小行星和彗星撞击地球
后记
附录一 灾害时标
附录二 地球的地质时标
1 Map of the Earth's plates with locations of recent disasters Apocalypse,Cassell,1999
2 The lithosphere Apocalypse,Cassell,1999
3 Badly damaged building after Indian Ocean tsunami 2004 Tiziana Rossetto
4 Ruins of St Pierre(Martinique)after 1902 eruption ? Mary Evans Picture Library
5 Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases over the last 1,000 years
6 Temperature rise over(a)the last 1,000 years and(b)the last 140 years IPCC 3rd Assessment Report
7 Map of annual mean change in temperature between now and 2100 IPCC 3rd Assessment Report
8 Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina cover streets of New Orleans,2005 ? Vincent Laforet-Pool/Getty Images
9 Temperature changes over the past 420,000 years
10 Milkanovich cycles Israel Antiquities Authority
11 Ice fair on the Thames,1739-40 ? Museum of London
12 Comparisons of temperatures in this interglacial period and the last
13 Satellite image of Lake Toba
14 Sunlight reduction due to the Toba eruption Apocalypse,Cassell,1999
15 Model of tsunami generated by collapse of the Cumbre Vieja volcano,La Palma
16 Devastation after 1923 Tokyo quake ? Hulton Archive/Getty Images
17 Comet Shoemaker-Levy impacts on Jupiter ? MSSSO,ANU/Science Photo Library
18 Orbits of known Near Earth Asteroids.1.Mercury 2.Venus 3.Earth 4.Mars
19 Flattened trees at Tunguska ? Novosti Press Agency/Science Photo Library
20 Zones of destruction due to variously sized asteroid impacts centred on London
图1.地球板块图上的近代灾害位置
图2.岩石圈
图3.印度洋海啸(2004)后严重受损的建筑物
图4.火山爆发后(1902)圣皮埃尔镇(马提尼克岛)的惨状
图5.过去1,000年温室气体浓度增加
图6.历史温度变化:
(a)过去1,000年(b)过去140年图7.现在到2100年的年平均温度变化图
图8.2005年飓风“卡特里娜”引发的洪水淹没了新奥尔良的街道
图9.过去42万年温度变化
图10.米兰科维奇周期
图11.泰晤士河上的冰雪节(1739-1740)
图12.本次和上次间冰期温度比较
图13.多巴湖卫星图像
图14.多巴火山喷发引起阳光减弱
图15.拉帕尔马岛上的别哈火山崩塌引发海啸的模型
图16.1923年东京大地震造成的破坏
图17.舒梅克-列维彗星撞击木星
图18.已知的近地小行星轨道
1.水星2.金星3.地球4.火星图19.通古斯卡地区被击倒的森林
图20.不同小行星撞击伦敦可能形成的破坏范围