Cutting Edge Earth Sciences: Three Decades of Cosmogenic Nuclides

• Other Authors: Akçar, Naki (Editor), Ivy-Ochs, Susan (Editor), Schlunegger, Fritz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Sennwald rock avalanche; cosmogenic nuclide dating; run-out modelling; cosmogenic nuclides; sediment fingerprinting; geomorphometric analysis; positive feedback; Prättigau half-window; cosmogenic 21Ne; noble gas isotope; mass spectrometry; neon isotope; 21Ne; Ne dating; Bruderheim chondrite; Imilac pallasite; CREU quartz; glacial erosion rates; cosmogenic 36Cl; Swiss Alps; limestone plateau; Bündnerbergjoch; nunatak; cosmonuclides; 10Be; 26Al; 3He; 36Cl; 14C; MATLAB; Octave; cosmogenic surface exposure dating; Jan Mayen; background production; nuclide production; burial dating; European Alps; rock avalanche; Dan3D-Flex runout modeling; active tectonics; fault scarp dating; Gediz Graben; western Anatolia; earthquake; Holocene; isochron-burial dating; Swiss northern Alpine Foreland; Middle Pleistocene; Möhlin glaciation; Bünten Till; soil forming factors; chronosequences; high-mountain soils; proglacial areas; erratic boulders; LGM Glaciations; eastern Anatolia; glacier retreat; n/a
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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.