Earthquake - Further Reading

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Earthquake

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For younger readers

Meister, Cari. Earthquakes. ABDO, 1999. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Sherrow, Victoria. San Francisco Earthquake, 1989: Death and Destruction. Enslow., 1998. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Simon, Seymour. Earthquakes. Morrow, 1991, 1995. For readers in grades 3 to 6.

Sutherland, Lin. Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Reader's Digest, 2000. For readers in grades 4 to 8.

Plate tectonics

Condie, Kent C. Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution. Reed Educational, 1998. An up-to-date survey of the field.

Kearey, Philip, and Frederick J. Vine. Global Tectonics. Blackwell, 1996. Comprehensive introduction to subject.

Keller, Edward A., and Nicholas Pinter. Active Tectonics: Earthquakes, Uplift, and Landscape. Prentice Hall, 2001. Makes the study of modern-day tectonics understandable.

Oreskes, Naomi, and Homer Le Grand, eds. Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth. Westview, 2001. Seventeen essays by scientists who explain how plate tectonics works.

Sattler, Helen Roney. Our Patchwork Planet: The Story of Plate Tectonics. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1995. An engaging book combining illustrations and text, for younger readers.