{"title":"Books by Robert Muir-Wood","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781782700081","title":"How It Works: Prehistory","description":"Packed with must-know information and written in an accessible style, expert author, Robert Muir Wood, takes readers on a sensational journey into prehistory, and reveals the ways it's secrets are discovered and revealed.In this remarkable book, superb large-format illustrations and quality photographs enhance the in-depth explanations and descriptions, and provide an enriching learning experience for young readers.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926159282549,"sku":"9781782700081","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782700081_6d2e2fc9-810d-4471-946c-9b31c1810530.jpg?v=1786025644"},{"product_id":"9780198871620","title":"This Volcanic Isle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e From the natural geometry of the Giant's Causeway to the sarsen slabs used to build Stonehenge, we are surrounded by evidence for the extraordinary geological forces that shaped the British Isles. \u003c\/b\u003eRunning coast to coast through Devon is 'Sticklepath', Britain's 'San Andreas', a geological fault with the two sides displaced horizontally by several kilometres, all within the recent geological past. The Sticklepath Fault is just one manifestation of the rich tectonic history of the British region since the asteroid collision that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. Raised out of the Chalk Sea, the original Albion was a thickly forested island a thousand kilometres long, surrounded by chalk cliffs, punctuated with great volcanoes, and the site of two trial 'spreading ridge' plate-boundaries. As the volcanoes shifted west, and Greenland separated from Europe, the wind-blown volcanic ash laid the strata on which London was founded. The vertical Needles, known to every Isle of Wight sailor, are part of the northern foothills of the Pyrenees. When the collision subsided, rifting created a garland of Celtic lakes from Brittany to the Outer Hebrides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn This Volcanic Isle Robert Muir-Wood explores the rich geological history of the British Isles, and its resulting legacy. Along the way he introduces the personalities who shared a fascination for Britain's tectonic history, including Charles Darwin the geologist, Tennyson the science-poet, and Benoit Mandelbrot, the pure mathematician who labelled the west coast of Britain a fractal icon. Here is the previously untold story of how earthquakes and eruptions, plumes and plate boundaries, built the British Isles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227143582069,"sku":"9780198871620","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780198871620_7f878621-49b2-4045-bdb3-bae74b939c76.jpg?v=1786012680"},{"product_id":"magnitude-9","title":"Magnitude 9","description":"While the largest of all earthquakes, magnitude 9s (M9s), may happen about five times each century, they release more energy than all other earthquakes combined, and the impacts can be global.Two huge earthquakes beneath Alaska and southern Chile in the early 1960s overwhelmed the capacity of the standard Richter magnitude scale used to determine their size. In the 1970s a leading Japanese seismologist, Hiroo Kanamori, created a more robust moment magnitude measure in which both earthquakes were beyond magnitude 9. Meanwhile, more giant earthquakes were emerging. In the 1980s, geologist Brian Atwater linked coastal subsidence in Washington State with a January 1700 'orphan tsunami' in Japan. Robert Muir-Wood explores how Kanamori's theory failed to foresee the December 26th, 2004, Indian Ocean Magnitude 9.2 earthquake and tsunami, which drowned 200,000. Another gigantic earthquake hit Japan in March 2011 while the leading seismologists were gathered for a conference at a brand-new science facility outside Tokyo. They learned in real-time the limits of their theories. What did this mean for the hazard at other comparable plate boundary coastlines in Hokkaido, Crete, or Peru? And how could governments relearn to trust seismologists who had misunderstood something so critical as maximum magnitude? Magnitude 9 tells story of tectonic science and investigative geography of some of the most energetic and deadly catastrophes on Earth. Tracing the men and women who explored for clues and revealed the workings of these catastrophes, each chapter pursues a single event or geographic cluster of M9s to reveal a different facet of their origin.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57524686520693,"sku":"9780197797518","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-robert-muir-wood.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}