Nature's clocks [electronic resource] : how scientists measure the age of almost everything
Examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating - the best known of these methods - and several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, this book unwraps the last century's advances
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press ,
c2008
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. No vestige of a beginning
- 2. Mysterious rays
- 3. Wild Bill's quest
- 4. Changing perceptions
- 5. Getting the lead out
- 6. Dating the boundaries
- 7. Clocking evolution
- 8. Ghostly forests and Mediterranean volcanoes
- 9. More and more from less and less