Peter D. Ward: Time Machines, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Time Machines
- Scientific Explorations in Deep Time
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Springer, 09/2012
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781461272397
- Artikelnummer:
- 3056258
- Umfang:
- 264 Seiten
- Sonstiges:
- XIX, 241 p.
- Ausgabe:
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2012
- Gewicht:
- 404 g
- Maße:
- 235 x 155 mm
- Stärke:
- 14 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 27.9.2012
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Beschreibung
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
Inhaltsangabe
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.
Klappentext
In ten essays united by a common theme, acclaimed author Peter D. Ward shows how paleontologists use time machines to probe the distant past. The machines may be as simple as a rock hammer, as humble as a magnifying glass or as esoteric as a mass spectrometer, but when powered by the imagination of scientists willing to take creative risks, each takes us on a fascinating journey to long-ago worlds. In the tradition of Loren Eisley and Steven Jay Gould, these essays present fascinating profiles of the past and the people who are making it come alive.
