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© Stephen G. Brush

Transmuted Past:
The Age of the Earth and the Evolution of the Elements from Lyell to Patterson

by Stephen G. Brush

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 134 pp. ISBN 9780521552134 (hardcover).

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CONTENTS

    PART 1: EARTH/HISTORY
  1. Introduction
  2. History and geology as ways of studying the past
  3. Kelvin and geological time
  4. Planetary science: From underground to underdog
    PART 2: TIME AND THE ELEMENTS
  1. Cosmic evolution of matter
  2. Geochronology in the 20th century
  3. Stellar evolution and the origin of the elements

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