Natures Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
Book 1 of Stratigraphy
Language: English
38.01.00=General Geology 38.29.00=Stratigraphy 38.33.00=Geochemistry 41.15.00=Astrometry acasta gneiss advisory committee age alpine iceman analysis ancient archaeological community arnold ash atom atomic bomb atomic mass atomic scale australian zircon avoid confusion awarded based becquerels ray beta particle beta ray billion billion year boundaries boundary british museum calibration canadian shield canyon diablo carbon case casual observer cathode ray change chapter charles lyell chemical clarence king colleague colossal ghost contemporary assay content conventional wisdom cosmic ray cosmochimica acta crystal curve data dating day decay deep burial direct ancestor discovery early earth earthquake earths crust earths interior eastern africa ediacaran fauna element event evidence evolution expression elt fossil gamma ray geological geological society geological survey geologist grain great great expectation grossmans thesis half-life harold urey harrison brown high high degree high velocity history homo sapiens human hutton ice idea idealized cross-section igneous rock instrument international commission involved isotope isotopic ngerprint kelvin knew laboratory layer lead libby life long lord kelvin lord kelvins magnetic reversal main text marie curie marie curies mass mass spectrometer material measure measured measurement metamorphic rock meteorite method metropolitan museum mineral monte verde national museum natural natural logarithm nature nobel prize north africa north america norwegian rock nuclear reactor nuclear studies nucleus number ocean older olduvai gorge pacic northwest paper particle pat castillo patterson peanut butter period photographic plate place planets history plate tectonics potassiumargon dating problem process published pure curiosity question radioactive radioactivity radiocarbon radiocarbon dating range ray record researcher result richter scale rock rock outcropping rubidium-strontium dating rutherford sam bowring sample san diego scale scale bar science scientic circle scientic community scientic grapevine scientic journal scientic literature scientist scripps institution sea sealed container sediment sedimentary sedimentary rock sedimentary stratum smith stratigraphy subduction zone technique thought time time scale tree uncertainty university uorescing screen uranium uraniumlead dating vertical bar vice versa volcanic ash work year zircon
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