Geological calibration of spallation production rates in the CRONUS-Earth project

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 31, Issue , 2016, Pages 188-198

  Borchers, Brian ^a   Marrero, Shasta ^b   Balco, Greg ^c   Caffee, Marc ^d   Goehring, Brent ^e   Lifton, Nathaniel ⁱ   Nishiizumi, Kunihiko ^f   Phillips, Fred ^a   Schaefer, Joerg ^g   Stone, John ^h  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Tulane University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g New Mexico Tech ^*  (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum 26; Beryllium 10; Calibration; Carbon 14; Chlorine 36; Cosmogenic nuclide; Helium 3; Production rate

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CALIBRATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLORINE ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; ELEVATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HELIUM ISOTOPE; LATITUDE; QUATERNARY;

EID: 84951877377     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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