Earth science and meteoritics; dedicated to F.G. Houtermans on his sixtieth birthday. J. Geiss [and] E.D. Goldberg.

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My early memories of Fritz Houtermans, by G. Gamow.--Early history of the earth, by W.M. Elsasser.--Radioactive heat production in eclogite and some ultramafic rocks, by G.R. Tilton and G.W. Reed.--Some recent researches on lead isotope abundances, by R.D. Russell.--The concentration of common lead in sea water, by M. Tatsumoto and C.C. Patterson.--Rates of sediment accumulation in the Indian Ocean, by E.D. Goldberg and M. Koide.--The natural distribution of radiocarbon: mixing rates in the sea and residence times of carbon and water, by H. Craig.--On the investigations of geophysical processes using cosmic ray produced radioactivity, by D. Lal.--Neutrons in meteorites, by P. Eberhardt, J. Geiss and H. Lutz.--The tritium content of atmospheric hydrogen and atmospheric methane, by F. Begemann.--Tritium in rainwater, by H.v. Buttlar.--Cosmic ray produced Na²² and Al²⁶ activities in chondrites, by M.M. Biswas, C. Mayer-Böricke and W. Gentner.--Isotopic and chemical composition of some terrestrial natural gases, by G.J. Wasserburg, E. Mazor, R.E. Zartman.--Rare gases in the sun, in the atmosphere, and in meteorites, by P. Signer and H.E. Suess.--The half-life of ¹⁸⁷Re, by B. Hirt [and others]--Reversible and irreversible thermal effects on the thermoluminescence of limestone, by E.J. Zeller and L.B. Ronca.