The potential of historic rock avalanches and man-made structures as chlorine-36 production rate calibration sites

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-62

  Merchel, Silke ^a,b   Braucher, Régis ^a   Alfimov, Vasily ^c   Bichler, Max ^d   Bourlès, Didier L ^a   Reitner, Jürgen M ^e  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d TU WIEN   (Austria)

^e ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; Calibration site; Cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating; Production rate; Rock avalanche; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (TCN)

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AGE DETERMINATION; CALIBRATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MANMADE STRUCTURE; ROCK AVALANCHE;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; FRANCE; VIENNA;

EID: 84883795757     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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