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The Big One : The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science
The Big One The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science
Author: Charles Officer, Jake Page
In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of trees exploded, and some 1,500 people -- in what was then a sparsely populated wilderness -- were kill...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618341504
ISBN-10: 0618341501
Publication Date: 6/17/2004
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
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