The production rate of cosmogenic 38Ar from calcium in terrestrial pyroxene

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 596-608

  Niedermann, Samuel ^a   Schaefer, Joerg M ^b   Wieler, Rainer ^c   Naumann, Rudolf ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

argon; helium; neon; production rates; surface exposure dating; terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; TERRESTRIAL PYROXENE;

ARGON; CALCIUM; COSMIC RAYS; GEOMAGNETISM; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; MINERALOGY; NEON;

COSMOLOGY;

ARGON ISOTOPE; CALCIUM; COSMIC RAY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DIABASE; HELIUM; NEON; PYROXENE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 34248173480     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.020     Document Type: Article

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