A 200 kyr record of cosmogenic radionuclide production rate and geomagnetic field intensity from 10Be in globally stacked deep-sea sediments

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 121-129

  Frank, Martin ^a,b   Schwarz, Bernd ^b   Baumann, Sabine ^b   Kubik, Peter W ^c   Suter, Martin ^c   Mangini, Augusto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Be 10 boundary scavenging; Be 10 production rate; Geomagnetic field intensity; Sediment redistribution; Th 230 normalization

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPES; BERYLLIUM-10; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MARINE SEDIMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0030793961     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00070-8     Document Type: Article

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