The dating game : one man's search for the age of the Earth /
In this book, Cherry Lewis skilfully blends the history of gauging the age of the Earth with a biography of Arthur Holmes, a British geologist who was a pioneer of geochronology. When it was deeply unfashionable to do so in the early twentieth century, he spent many years trying to prove the great a...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Series: | Canto classics.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Prelude to the Game
- A Brief History of Time
- Darwin's Sorest Trouble
- Mysterious Rays
- Doomsday Postponed
- Holidays in Mozambique
- This Vegetable Prison
- A Brimful of Promise
- Liquid Gold in Yenangyaung
- Durham Days
- The Ardnamurchan Affair
- Rewards and Retributions
- Why does the Sun Shine?
- The Age of Uranium
- The Age of the Earth
- Loose Ends.