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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything [Buy it!] | Macdougall, Doug | USD 24.25 (Sat May 25 06:59:02 2024) | Abebooks | Leopolis | ISBN10: 0520249755, ISBN13: 9780520249752, [publisher: University of California Press] Hardcover 8vo (23.5 cm), XI, 271 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. "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." (from the publisher's description) [Kraków, Poland] [Publication Year: 2008] Show/Hide image |