Production rates of cosmogenic nuclides in boulders

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 201-208

  Masarik, Jozef ^a   Wieler, Rainer ^b  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclides; Exposure dating; Production rates

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; COSMIC RAY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GEOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0242581713     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00476-X     Document Type: Article

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