Scaling time-integrated in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates using a continuous geomagnetic model

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 190-201

  Lifton, Nathaniel ^a   Smart, D F ^b   Shea, M A ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmogenic nuclides; geomagnetic field models; non dipole field; surface exposure dating; time integrated production rates

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MODELS; NON-DIPOLE FIELD; SURFACE EXPOSURE DATING; TIME-INTEGRATED PRODUCTION RATES;

COSMIC RAYS; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ISOTOPES;

COSMIC RAY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODELING; PALEOMAGNETISM; PARAMETERIZATION; SECULAR VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UPSCALING;

ASIA; CALIFORNIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; XIZANG;

EID: 40649095603     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.01.021     Document Type: Article

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