Sclerochronology
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 114 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5125-4588-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term sclerochronology dates from the early 1970s, and was coined in 1974 following pioneering work on nuclear test atolls by Knutson and Buddemeier. Sclerochronology is the study of physical and chemical variations in the accretionary hard tissues of invertebrates and coralline red algae, and the temporal context in which they formed. The term comes from the three Greek words scleros – hard, chronos – time and logos – science, and refers to the science of ordering events in time. Sclerochronology focuses primarily upon growth patterns reflecting annual, monthly, fortnightly, tidal, daily, and sub-daily (ultradian) increments of time. The regular time increments are controlled by biological clocks which - in turn - are entrained by environmental and astronomical pacemakers. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в...
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