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Natures Clocks : How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything.
Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting, writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. No Vestige of a Beginning; Chapter 2. Mysterious Rays; Chapter 3. Wild Bill's Quest; Chapter 4. Changing Perceptions; Chapter 5. Getting the Lead Out; Chapter 6. Dating the Boundaries; Chapter 7. Clocking Evolution; Chapter 8. Ghostly Forests and Mediterranean Volcanoes; Chapter 9. More and More from Less and Less; Appendix A. The Geological Time Scale; Appendix B. Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements; Appendix C. Additional Notes; Glossary; Resources and Further Reading; Index.