Calibration of cosmogenic 36Cl production rates from Ca and K spallation in lava flows from Mt. Etna (38°N, Italy) and Payun Matru (36°S, Argentina)

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2611-2632

  Schimmelpfennig, Irene ^a   Benedetti, Lucilla ^a   Garreta, Vincent ^a,c   Pik, Raphaël ^b   Blard, Pierre Henri ^b   Burnard, Pete ^b   Bourlès, Didier ^a   Finkel, Robert ^a,e   Ammon, Katja ^d   Dunai, Tibor ^d  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALCIUM; CHLORINE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; FELDSPAR; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; PHOSPHORUS; PLAGIOCLASE; TRACHYTE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANO;

ARGENTINA; CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 79955099234     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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