TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Cherry
TI  - The dating game: one man's search for the age of the earth 
SN  - 9780521790512
U1  - 551.7 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Holmes, Arthur
KW  - Geological time
KW  - Earth : Age
KW  - Holmes, Arthur : Biographical sketch
KW  - Earth
KW  - Age
N1  - "It is perhaps a little indelicate to ask of our Mother Earth her age, but science acknowledges no shame."; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "The Dating Game tells the story of one man's vision of developing a geological timescale that would finally lead to an accurate date for the Age of the Earth. Despite scientific opposition, financial hardship and personal tragedy, Arthur Holmes, greatest geologist of the twentieth century, fought for fifty years to convince the establishment of an Earth of great antiquity: a fight which eventually transformed the moribund 'art' of geology into a dynamic science." "Cherry Lewis' writing brings Holmes back to life and weaves his adventures, loves and losses, around the early history and science of dating the Earth, and the discovery of radioactivity - the clock that tells geological time."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -