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Nature's 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 |
| Sumario: | 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 determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating?the best known of these methods?and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520933443 9780520933446 9781435684737 1435684737 1281752622 9781281752628 9786611752620 6611752625 |