Cosmogenic 26Al in the atmosphere and the prospect of a 26Al/10Be chronometer to date old ice

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 453-462

  Auer, Matthias ^a   Wagenbach, Dietmar ^b   Wild, Eva Maria ^a   Wallner, Anton ^a   Priller, Alfred ^a   Miller, Heinrich ^c   Schlosser, Clemens ^d   Kutschera, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

10Be; 26Al; accelerator mass spectrometry; cosmogenic radionuclides; dating

Indexed keywords

10BE; 26AL; ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; DATING;

CHRONOMETERS; ICE; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AGE DETERMINATION; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ICE CORE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 70350244650     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.030     Document Type: Article

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