Time machines : scientific explorations in deep time / Peter D. Ward.
Time machines : scientific explorations in deep time / Peter D. Ward.
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New York : Copernicus, c1998.
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T0394039
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English
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Physical content
xix, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Sucia Island -- Pt. 1. Finding Time. 1. Fossils and the Birth of the Geological Time Scale. 2. Radiometric Clocks. 3. Magnetic Clocks -- Pt. 2. Place. 4. Baja British Columbia. 5. Ancient Environments and the Level of the Sea -- Pt. 3. Inhabitants. 6. The Bite of a Mosasaur. 7. Virtual...
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New York : Copernicus, c1998.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
In Time Machines the acclaimed paleontologist Peter D. Ward takes us on a trip not to the future, but to the end of the dinosaur age - from 80 million to 65 million years ago - to illustrate the techniques modern scientists use to recover events of the deep past. From patterns in rock, scraps of fossilized bone, and traces of metal that, to the nov...
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Time machines : scientific explorations in deep time / Peter D. Ward.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229) and index.
Transferred from N560/50.
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c1998.
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T0394039
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74VvzZQaepRb
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ISBN
038798416X (acid-free paper)
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560
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991009286949702626
