Their approach involves converting radioactive material into short - lived
nuclides by absorbing surplus neutrons... Read more →
Not exact matches
To ascertain the age of the boulders strewn
by the glaciers and thus come up with a date when glaciers were at their greatest extent, Willenbring and colleagues used a technique known as cosmogenic
nuclide exposure dating, which measures the chemical residue of supernova explosions.
Cosmogenic
nuclides are isotopes that are produced
by interaction of cosmic rays with the nucleus of the atom.
Stability curve is shown and description of location of
nuclides which will decay
by each decay method.
The reader thus will find a large collection of valuable and interesting data related to the environmental contamination
by radioactive
nuclides after the Fukushima accident.
Other applications of past geomagnetic field reconstructions include investigations of atmospheric ionisation
by galactic cosmic rays (e.g., Usoskin et al. 2008, 2010) or in - situ cosmogenic
nuclide production rates to study Earth surface processes (e.g., Pigati & Lifton 2004; Lifton et al. 2008).