Nature's clocks : how scientists measure the age of almost everything / Doug Macdougall.

Author/creator Macdougall, J. D., 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents No vestige of a beginning-- -- Mysterious rays -- Wild Bill's quest -- Changing perceptions -- Getting the lead out -- Dating the boundaries -- Clocking evolution -- Ghostly forests and Mediterranean volcanoes -- More and more from less and less.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.
LCCN 2007046955
ISBN9780520249752 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520249755 (cloth : alk. paper)