Time Machines (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
241
Utgivningsdatum
1998-09-01
Upplaga
1998 ed.
Förlag
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Illustrationer
XIX, 241 p.
Dimensioner
236 x 163 x 25 mm
Vikt
545 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISBN
9780387984162

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What is the past? It is a time as well as a place. Acclaimed author Peter D. Ward describes the tools that contemporary scientists use to uncover facts about the past - terrain, climate, and the life forms that once inhabited this planet. Time Machines presents fascinating profiles of the deep past and the scientists who are making it come alive. "...for the general reader, Time Machines may be the most interesting book yet by the University of Washington prof..." -SEATTLE WEEKLY "For anyone interested in how and why as well as the what of paleontology, Time Machines is a must read."-AMERICAN SCIENTIST
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Innehållsförteckning

One: Finding Time.- 1 Fossils and the Birth of the Geological Time Scale.- 2 Radiometric Clocks.- 3 Magnetic Clocks.- Two: Place.- 4 Baja British Columbia.- 5 Ancient Environments and the Level of the Sea.- Three: Inhabitants.- 6 The Bite of a Mosasaur.- 7 Virtual Ammonites.- 8 The Ancestry of the Nautilus.- 9 Of Inoceramids and Isotopes.- Four: The Time Machine.- 10 Cretaceous Park.- Afterword.- References.