The Chronologers' Quest [electronic resource] : The Search for the Age of the Earth.

• Tác giả: Patrick Wyse Jackson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0511240973
• ISBN-13: 978-0521813327
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 550 Earth sciences
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học tự nhiên
• ID: 70805
• Chủ đề: 1. Geochronometry; 2. Geological time; 3. Electronic books

Tóm tắt

This book investigates the methods used to determine the Earth's age, from James Ussher and John Lightfoot examining biblical chronologies, to Arthur Holmes and Clair Patterson investigating radioactive dating of rocks. It will be of interest to those with little scientific background, and students and scientists in the earth sciences.