Using ice core measurements from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica to calibrate in situ cosmogenic 14C production rates by muons

• Main Authors: Dyonisius, Michael, Petrenko, Vasilii, Smith, Andrew, Hmiel, Benjamin, Neff, Peter, Yang, Bin, Hua, Quan, Schmitt, Jochen, Shackleton, Sarah, Buizert, Christo, Place, Philip, Menking, James, Beaudette, Ross, Harth, Christina, Kalk, Michael, Roop, Heidi, Bereiter, Bernhard, Armanetti, Casey, Vimont, Isaac, Englund Michel, Sylvia, Brook, Edward, Severinghaus, Jeffrey, Weiss, Ray, McConnell, Joseph
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Taylor Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-375; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-375/

Cosmic rays entering the Earth’s atmosphere produce showers of secondary particles such as neutrons and muons. The interaction of these neutrons and muons with oxygen-16 ( 16 O) in minerals such as ice and quartz can produce carbon-14 ( 14 C). Analyses of in situ produced cosmogenic 14 C in quartz a...