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6
. E. Rutherford, “The Radiation and Emanation of Radium, Pt. II,”
Technics
171 (August
1904): 175.
7
. J. Joly, “Radium and the Geological Age of the Earth,”
Nature
68 (1903): 526.
8
. Ibid., 526.
9
. Eve,
Rutherford
, 109.
10
. Ibid., 140-141.
11
. W. T. Kelvin, First Baron, J. Larmor, and J. P. Joule,
Mathematical and Physical Papers
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1882), 231-234.
12
. Eve,
Rutherford
, 161.
Geochronology
1
. A. S. Eve,
Rutherford
(Macmillan, 1939), 430-431.
2
. Ibid., 437-438.
3
. R. Strutt, “The Leakage of Helium from Radio-Active Minerals,”
Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London. Series A
82, no. 553 (1909): 169.
4
. R. Strutt, “The Accumulation of Helium in Geological Time. III,”
Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London. Series A
83, no. 562 (1910): 299.
5
. B. B. Boltwood, “Ultimate Disintegration Products of the Radioactive Elements; Part II,
Disintegration Products of Uranium,”
American Journal of Science
134 (1907).
6
. J. Joly, “The Age of the Earth,”
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical
Magazine and Journal of Science
22, no. 129 (1911).
7
. Ibid., 380.
8
. G. F. Becker, “Relations of Radioactivity to Cosmogony and Geology,”
Geological Society
of America Bulletin
19 (1908): 133.
9
. J. Barrell, “Rhythms and the Measurements of Geologic Time,”
Geological Society of
America Bulletin
28 (1917): 747-749.
10
. Ibid., 749.
11
. C. Lewis,
The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth
(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000).
12
. A. Holmes, “The Association of Lead with Uranium in Rock-Minerals, and Its Applica-
tion to the Measurement of Geological Time,”
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Ser-
ies A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
85, no. 578 (1911).
13
. Ibid., 250-251.
14
. Ibid., 256. At the end of this first published scientific paper, Holmes thanked his mentor
Strutt “for his kindness in obtaining for me the suite of minerals.” Fifty years later, Holmes
would help another young geologist starting his Ph.D. dissertation by providing a suite of
samples from his collection of the rare rocks called carbonatites.
15
. A. Holmes,
The Age of the Earth
(Harper & Brothers, 1913), 18.
16
. Ibid., 64.
17
. A. Holmes, “Estimates of Geological Time, with Special Reference to Thorium Minerals
and Uranium Haloes,”
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journ-
al of Science
1, no. 5 (1926): 1056.
18
. Holmes,
The Age of the Earth
, 166.
19
. Holmes, “Estimates of Geological Time,” 167-168.
