Cosmogenic 3He production rates from Holocene lava flows in Iceland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 251-264

  Licciardi, J M ^a   Kurz, M D ^b   Curtice, J M ^b  

^a Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmogenic nuclides; helium; Icelandic Low; production rates; surface exposure ages

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC LAVA FLOW; COSMOGENIC PRODUCTION RATE; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION RATE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BASALT; CALIBRATION; COSMIC RAYS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

VOLCANOES;

COSMIC RAY; HELIUM; HOLOCENE; LAVA FLOW; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 33744936827     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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