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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.