The NUNAtak Ice Thinning (NUNAIT) calculator for cosmonuclide elevation profiles
Cosmogenic nuclides are widely used to constrain the landscape history of glaciated areas. At nunataks in continental polar regions with extremely arid conditions, cosmogenic nuclides are often the only method available to date the ice thinning history of the glacier. However, the amount of cosmogen...
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ftuglasgow:oai:eprints.gla.ac.uk:246972 2023-05-15T16:40:52+02:00 The NUNAtak Ice Thinning (NUNAIT) calculator for cosmonuclide elevation profiles Rodés, Ángel 2021-09 text http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/246972/ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/246972/1/246972.pdf en eng MDPI http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/246972/1/246972.pdf Rodés, Á. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/15683.html> (2021) The NUNAtak Ice Thinning (NUNAIT) calculator for cosmonuclide elevation profiles. Geosciences <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/Geosciences.html>, 11(9), 362. (doi:10.3390/geosciences11090362 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11090362>) cc_by_4 CC-BY Articles PeerReviewed 2021 ftuglasgow https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11090362 2022-03-03T23:14:41Z Cosmogenic nuclides are widely used to constrain the landscape history of glaciated areas. At nunataks in continental polar regions with extremely arid conditions, cosmogenic nuclides are often the only method available to date the ice thinning history of the glacier. However, the amount of cosmogenic isotopes accumulated at the surface of nunataks depends not only on the length of time that rock has been exposed since the last deglaciation but also on the full history of the surface, including muon production under ice, exposure during previous interglacials, subaerial weathering rate, glacial erosion rate, and uplift rate of the nunatak. The NUNAtak Ice Thinning model (NUNAIT) simulates the cosmonuclide accumulation on vertical profiles, fitting the aforementioned parameters to a set of multi-isotope apparent ages from samples taken at different elevations over the ice-sheet surface. The NUNAIT calculator is an easy-to-use tool that constrains parameters that describe the geological history of a nunatak from a set of surface exposure ages. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet University of Glasgow: Enlighten - Publications Geosciences 11 9 362 |
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Cosmogenic nuclides are widely used to constrain the landscape history of glaciated areas. At nunataks in continental polar regions with extremely arid conditions, cosmogenic nuclides are often the only method available to date the ice thinning history of the glacier. However, the amount of cosmogenic isotopes accumulated at the surface of nunataks depends not only on the length of time that rock has been exposed since the last deglaciation but also on the full history of the surface, including muon production under ice, exposure during previous interglacials, subaerial weathering rate, glacial erosion rate, and uplift rate of the nunatak. The NUNAtak Ice Thinning model (NUNAIT) simulates the cosmonuclide accumulation on vertical profiles, fitting the aforementioned parameters to a set of multi-isotope apparent ages from samples taken at different elevations over the ice-sheet surface. The NUNAIT calculator is an easy-to-use tool that constrains parameters that describe the geological history of a nunatak from a set of surface exposure ages. |
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The NUNAtak Ice Thinning (NUNAIT) calculator for cosmonuclide elevation profiles |
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/246972/1/246972.pdf Rodés, Á. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/15683.html> (2021) The NUNAtak Ice Thinning (NUNAIT) calculator for cosmonuclide elevation profiles. Geosciences <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/Geosciences.html>, 11(9), 362. (doi:10.3390/geosciences11090362 <http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11090362>) |
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