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Time Machines Peter D. Ward

Time Machines By Peter D. Ward

Time Machines by Peter D. Ward


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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...

Time Machines Summary

Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time by Peter D. Ward

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

Table of Contents

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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NLS9781461272397
9781461272397
1461272394
Time Machines: Scientific Explorations in Deep Time by Peter D. Ward
New
Paperback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2012-09-27
241
N/A
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