WebCN: A web-based computation tool for in situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 646-652

  Ma, Xiuzeng ^a   Li, Yingkui ^b   Bourgeois, Mike ^a   Caffee, Marc ^a   Elmore, David ^a   Granger, Darryl ^c   Muzikar, Paul ^a   Smith, Preston ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMS; Cosmogenic nuclides; Erosion rates; Microsoft Access; PHP; PostgreSQL; Surface exposure age; WebCN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COSMOLOGY; INTERNET; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PHENOMENA; WEB BROWSERS;

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; EROSION RATES; MICROSOFT ACCESS; POSTGRESQL; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE;

ISOTOPES;

EID: 34248144047     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2007.01.303     Document Type: Article

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