Nature's clocks how scientists measure the age of almost everything / [electronic resource] :
Doug Macdougall
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008
- 1 online resource (xi, 271 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index
No vestige of a beginning-- -- Mysterious rays -- Wild Bill's quest -- Changing perceptions -- Getting the lead out -- Dating the boundaries -- Clocking evolution -- Ghostly forests and Mediterranean volcanoes -- More and more from less and less