Terrestrial manganese-53 - A new monitor of Earth surface processes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 334-345

  Schaefer, Joerg M ^a   Faestermann, Thomas ^b   Herzog, Gregory F ^c   Knie, Klaus ^b   Korschinek, Gunther ^b   Masarik, Jozef ^d   Meier, Astrid ^b   Poutivtsev, Michail ^b   Rugel, Georg ^b   Schlüchter, Christian ^e   Serifiddin, Feride ^c   Winckler, Gisela ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

accelerator mass spectrometry; Antarctica; Dry Valleys; Earth surface processes; radionuclides; terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES;

COSMIC RAYS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MANGANESE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOISOTOPES; ROCKS;

PETROLOGY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMIC RAY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DIABASE; MANGANESE; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 33750525312     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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