Attenuation length for fast nucleon production of 10Be derived from near-surface production profiles

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 295-300

  Farber, Daniel L ^a,b   Mériaux, Anne Sophie ^b   Finkel, Robert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

10Be; attenuation length; cosmogenic radionuclide; geochronology; Quaternary; Sierra Nevada

Indexed keywords

10BE; ATTENUATION LENGTH; ATTENUATION LENGTHS; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SIERRA NEVADA;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANODIORITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PLUTON; QUATERNARY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52749092164     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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