The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes /Conevery Bolton Valencius.
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TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- QE535 .L678 2013
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: earthquake cracks -- A great commotion: the experience of the New Madrid earthquakes -- Earthquakes and the end of the New Madrid hinterland -- Revival and resistance: earthquakes on native ground -- The quaking body: sensation, electricity, and religious revival -- Vernacular science: knowing earthquakes in the early United States -- Sunk lands and submerged knowledge: how war, swamps, and seismographs hid evidence of the New Madrid earthquakes -- The science of deep history: old accounts and modern science of New Madrid -- Conclusion: memory and earth in the Mississippi Valley.
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