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

Zusatztext "Guaranteed to improve one's understanding." Informationen zum Autor Doug Macdougall is Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography! University of California! San Diego! and currently resides in Edinburgh! Scotland. He is the author of Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages (UC Press! 2004) and A Short History of Planet Earth. Klappentext "A lucid and engaging account of the scientific revolution that changed the way we think about our planet and ourselves."—James Lawrence Powell, author of Grand Canyon and Mysteries of Terra Firma Zusammenfassung 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. This book shows how scientists used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: D MacDougall, Doug Macdougall, Douglas Macdougall
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2009
• EAN: 9780520261617
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26161-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 18 mm
• Series: University of California Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); NATURE / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, natural history, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Historical Geology, Historical geology and palaeogeology