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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Nature's Clocks How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Author: Doug Macdougall
"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 examinin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520261617
ISBN-10: 0520261615
Publication Date: 10/20/2009
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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