A complete and easily accessible means of calculating surface exposure ages or erosion rates from 10Be and 26Al measurements

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 174-195

  Balco, Greg ^a   Stone, John O ^a   Lifton, Nathaniel A ^b   Dunai, Tibor J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aluminum 26; Beryllium 10; Cosmogenic nuclide geochronology; Erosion rate measurements; Exposure dating

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 41049096922     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2007.12.001     Document Type: Review

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