Cutting Edge Earth Sciences: Three Decades of Cosmogenic Nuclides

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; 10Be; 14C; 21Ne; 26Al; 36Cl; 3He; active tectonics; background production; Bruderheim chondrite; Bündnerbergjoch; Bünten Till; burial dating; chronosequences; cosmogenic 21Ne; cosmogenic 36Cl; cosmogenic nuclide dating; cosmogenic nuclides; cosmogenic surface exposure dating; cosmonuclides; CREU quartz; Dan3D-Flex runout modeling; earthquake; eastern Anatolia; erratic boulders; European Alps; fault scarp dating; Gediz Graben; geomorphometric analysis; glacial erosion rates; glacier retreat; high-mountain soils; Holocene; Imilac pallasite; isochron-burial dating; Jan Mayen; LGM Glaciations; limestone plateau; mass spectrometry; MATLAB; Middle Pleistocene; Möhlin glaciation; n/a; Ne dating; neon isotope; noble gas isotope; nuclide production; nunatak; Octave; positive feedback; Prättigau half-window; proglacial areas; rock avalanche; run-out modelling; sediment fingerprinting; Sennwald rock avalanche; soil forming factors; Swiss Alps; Swiss northern Alpine Foreland; western Anatolia
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036571485; 9783036571492; books978-3-0365-7149-2
• Access: Open Access

This Special Issue of Geosciences focuses on the application of the cosmogenic nuclides (3He, 10Be, 14C, 21Ne, 26Al and 36Cl) in diverse disciplines in the field of earth sciences, as well as on improvements in sampling, analytical sample preparation and analytical techniques. After the past three decades, and nearly 70 years after the first application, cosmogenic nuclides have become an amazingly versatile tool for Earth scientists to disentangle the unsolved pieces of Earth's history during the Quaternary. Today, Earth scientists apply cosmogenic nuclides to establish the timing of Quaternary ice volume fluctuations, and volcanic and palaeoseismic events, to gauge surface and/or rock uplift and denudation rates and to reconstruct terrace chronologies, as well as to determine the rates and styles of local and large-scale erosion, soil development and landscape evolution.