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Nature's Clocks - How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,908
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Nature's Clocks - How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything (Hardcover): Doug Macdougall

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

Doug Macdougall

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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 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 'Lucy', the timing of the dinosaurs' extinction, and the precise ages of tiny mineral grains that date from the beginning of the earth's history. In lively and accessible prose, he describes how the science of geochronology has developed and flourished. Relating these advances through the stories of the scientists themselves - James Hutton, William Smith, Arthur Holmes, Ernest Rutherford, Willard Libby, and Clair Patterson - Macdougall shows how they used ingenuity and inspiration to construct one of modern science's most significant accomplishments: a timescale for the earth's evolution and human prehistory.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2008
First published: June 2008
Authors: Doug Macdougall
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24975-2
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General
Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > Historical geology
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LSN: 0-520-24975-5
Barcode: 9780520249752

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