Catastrophes!: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, and Other Earth-Shattering Disasters

Index [Includes Image Plates]

Abbott, Teddy Blue, 204 Absaroka Basin, 127 accidental death, 298 Acritarchs, 236 actualism, 6–7, 137 Adams, Douglas, 291 Africa, 230–32 Agassiz, Louis, 217–20, 219 AIDS, 300 air hockey puck, 127 Akkadians, 141–42 Alabama, 159, 212 Alaska, 33–37, 239 Albedo, 234 Aleutians, 36–37, 95 Allan Hills, Antarctica, 236 Alley, Richard, 266 All Saints’ Day, 9–12 Alps, 42, 118–23, 237 Alvarez, Luis, 270 Alvarez, Walter, 269, 282 ammonites, 269 ammonoids, 276, 278 amphibians, 274–75 Amsden Formation, 123 Anak Krakatau, 85, 85–89 Anasazi, 305 Anchorage, Alaska, 34–36 Andes, 95, 125–27, 129–32, 234, 237 andesitic-dacitic-rhyolitic lavas, 94–96 angeli del fango, 151 angle of repose, 117 Annapolis, Missouri, 199–200 Antarctica, 226–28, 243–44, 251, 262; ice cap, 239; peninsula, 239 Antelope Canyon, Arizona, 153 anticyclones, 185 Apennine Mountains, 147, 269 Appalachian Trail, 214 Arabian Peninsula, 72 Arctic, 243–44, 262 Arctic ice cap, origin of, 228–29 Arctic Ocean, 239, 262–63 Aristotle, 1–2 Armenia, 298 Armero, Colombia, 130, 131–32 Arno River, 147–51 Arrhenius, Svante, 250 Asaro, Frank, 270 ash flow, 91–94 Asimov, Isaac, 301 asteroid impact, 268–92 Astrodome (Houston, Texas), 159 astrology, 222 Aswan High Dam, 142 Australia, 226–28, 236 auto-da-fé, 20 Babylonians, 141–42, 222 Bacon, Francis, 2, 229 Balaeric Islands, 239 Bangladesh, 56, 175, 178–79, 191, 264, 299, 300 Banqiao Dam, 152, 174, 297 Barbary Coast, 22 Barnum and Bailey circus, 92 Barreda, Rosa, 28–29 basaltic lavas, 94–95 Batavia (Djakarta), 85–89 Battle of Little Bighorn, 202 Index Page numbers in boldface denote illustrations. 316 Index Baum, L. Frank, 182, 185–86 Bay of Bengal, 178, 191 Beagle, HMS, 6, 9 Beartooth Plateau, 127 Beatles, the, 178 Becker, Luann, 277 Bedout Crater, 277 Bering Sea, 239 Bermuda high, 172 Berouw, 70, 71, 72 Beyerinck, Janni, 87–88 Bhola cyclone, 178, 297 Bible, The, 1–8 Big Five mass extinctions, 282, 286 Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, 125, 127, 128 Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, 153–54, plate 8 Binford, Boyd, 188 Birmingham, Alabama, 195, 214 Bishop, California, 100 Bishop tuff, 100 Black, Joseph, 3 black death (bubonic plague), 300 “black mat,” 280 Black Sea, 141–42 Blackwell, Oklahoma, 186 blizzards, 202–15, 294–301 bluefin tuna, 289–90 Boccaccio, 147 Bogale, Burma, 176 Bolivar Lighthouse, Texas, 167 Bonneville Salt Flats, 237 Boston, Massachusetts, 237 Botticelli, 147 Boulder, Colorado, 153 brachiopods, 276, 278 Brahmaputra River, 178 Brandenburg, Kentucky, 197–98 Branner, J. C., 29–31 Brazil, 230 Brazos River, 74 Bretz, J Harlen, 135–41 British Empire, 178–79 Brunelleschi, 147 Bruno, Giordano, 1 Bryan, Eliza, 38, 40 bryozoans, 276 bubonic plague epidemic, 300 Buchwald, Art, 133 Buckland, William, 7–8, 220 Buckley, Washington, 129 buckyballs, 277, 280–82 Budyko, Mikhail, 234–35 Buffon, Compte de, 2 Burma (Myanmar), 175–79, 299 Burma plate, 56 Burmese junta, 175–78 Burns, Robert, 3 Bush administration, 158–62, 189 Byron, Lord, 91 Cambodia, 178 Canada, 235 Canadian Arctic, 246, 263 cancer deaths, 298 Candide, 19–21 “cap carbonates,” 235 Capri, Island of, Italy, 77–84 carboniferous coal deposits, 233 Carmen, 23 Carolina Bays, 280 Caruso, Enrico, 23, 26 Carwardine, Mark, 291 Cascades, 95 Cassius Dio, 84 catastrophism, 1–8, 137, 268–70 Catholic Church, 1–4, 9–21 Cedar City, Missouri, 146 Center for Inquiry (CFI), 254–55 Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), 278 Channeled Scablands, 135–41 Charpentier, Jean de, 218 Chattanooga, Tennessee, 214 Chesapeake Bay impact crater, 283–86 Chiang Kai-shek, 151, 152 Chicago, Illinois, 237 Chicxulub crater, 273, 282, 284–85 Children’s Blizzard, 208–9 China, 151–52, 172–74, 179, 277, 298, 299, 304 Chinatown, San Francisco, California, 22 Index 317 Chinese Nationalist government, 151–52 “Choice of Catastrophes, A” (Eliot), 301 Chow, Robert “Steamy,” 64–68 Cincinnati, Ohio, 195, 246–47 Circum-Antarctic current, 226–27, 227 Clark Air Force Base, 103–4 CLIMAP project, 225 climate denialism, 254–59 Climatic Optimum, 252 Cline, Isaac, 166 Clovis culture, 280–82 CNN, 212 coccolithophorids, 274 Cold War, 303 Collapse (Diamond), 305 Colombia, 102, 129–32 Colorado River, 142–43 Colosseum, 76 Columbia River flood basalts, 96, 136–41 Compere-Leandre, L., 92–94 Concert for Bangladesh, 178 confirmation bias, 48 Connecticut, 215 Constantinople, 84 contamination, 94–95 continental drift, 229 Cook, Jesse B., 23 Copenhagen Climate Conference, 260 Copernicus, Nikolai, 1–2 corals, 276, 288 Coriolis effect, 185 Corsica, 239 cosmic...