The age of everything (Record no. 206597)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02019nam a2200409 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 930.1 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Hedman, Matthew, |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The age of everything |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Chicago : |
| Name of publisher | University of Chicago Press, |
| Year of publication | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 249 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- The calendars of the classic Maya -- Precession, polaris, and the age of the pyramids -- The physics of carbon-14 -- Calibrating carbon-14 dates and the history of the air -- Carbon-14 and the peopling of the new world -- Potassium, argon, DNA, and walking upright -- Molecular dating and the many different types of mammals -- Meteorites and the age of the solar system -- Colors, brightness, and the age of stars -- Distances, redshifts, and the age of the universe -- Parameterizing the age of the universe. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Archaeological dating. |
| Topical Term | Archaeology |
| Topical Term | Radiocarbon dating. |
| Topical Term | Science |
| Topical Term | Geochronometry. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10381168 |
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