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Cosmogenic nuclides (or
cosmogenic isotopes) are rare
nuclides (isotopes)
created when a high-energy
cosmic ray
interacts with the
nucleus of an in situ...
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between 103 and 106 years. The most
common of
these dating techniques is
cosmogenic radionuclide dating.
Earth is
constantly bombarded with
primary cosmic...
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three categories:
primordial radionuclides,
secondary radionuclides, and
cosmogenic radionuclides.
Radionuclides are
produced in
stellar nucleosynthesis and...
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directly with
cosmic rays. The latter, if non-primordial, are
called cosmogenic nuclides.
Other types of
natural nuclear reactions produce nuclides that...
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Miyake event is an
observed sharp enhancement of the
production of
cosmogenic isotopes by
cosmic rays. It can be
marked by a
spike in the concentration...
- beryllium, and boron—as well as the
isotope helium-3. This
process (
cosmogenic nucleosynthesis) was
discovered somewhat by
accident during the 1970s:...
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precipitation quickly becomes more alkaline,
beryllium drops out of solution.
Cosmogenic 10Be
thereby ac****ulates at the soil surface,
where its
relatively long...
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diameter and its age is
estimated to be 5,400 ± 1,500
years based on the
cosmogenic 14C
terrestrial age of the meteorite,
placing it in the Holocene. The...
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isotopes 7 Be , with a half-life of 53.22(6) d, and 10 Be are both
cosmogenic nuclides because they are made on a
recent timescale in the
Solar System...
- was created.
Burial dating uses the
differential radioactive decay of 2
cosmogenic elements as a
proxy for the age at
which a
sediment was
screened by burial...
