Nature's Clocks : How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Macdougall, J. D., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Radioisotopes in geology.
Geological time.
Geochronometry.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
Isotopes radioactifs en geologie.
Geochronologie.
Geochronometrie.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • No vestige of a beginning--
  • Mysterious rays
  • Wild Bill's quest
  • Changing perceptions
  • Getting the lead out
  • Dating the boundaries
  • Clocking evolution
  • Ghostly forests and Mediterranean volcanoes
  • More and more from less and less.

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