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Ward, Peter Douglas

 
9780387984162: Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time
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ISBN 10: 038798416X ISBN 13: 9780387984162
Casa editrice: Copernicus Books, 1998

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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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Contenuti

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.

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Editore
Copernicus Books
Data di pubblicazione
1998
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
038798416X
ISBN 13 
9780387984162
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
241
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