Time Machines

Scientific Explorations in Deep Time
1998
ISBN: 978-0-387-98416-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1210 g

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

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Peter D.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Tektonik, Strukturgeologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Historische Geologie, Geochronologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläobotanik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.