Regional beryllium-10 production rate calibration for late-glacial northeastern North America     

Greg Balco  Jason Briner  Robert C. Finkel  John A. Rayburn  John C. Ridge  Joerg M. Schaefer 《Quaternary Geochronology》2009,4(2):93-107

The major uncertainty in relating cosmogenic-nuclide exposure ages to ages measured by other dating methods comes from extrapolating nuclide production rates measured at globally scattered calibration sites to the sites of unknown age that are to be dated. This uncertainty can be reduced by locating production rate calibration sites that are similar in location and age to the sites to be dated. We use this strategy to reconcile exposure age and radiocarbon deglaciation chronologies for northeastern North America by compiling ¹⁰Be production rate calibration measurements from independently dated late-glacial and early Holocene ice-marginal landforms in this region. ¹⁰Be production rates measured at these sites are 6–12% lower than predicted by the commonly accepted global ¹⁰Be calibration data set used with any published production rate scaling scheme. In addition, the regional calibration data set shows significantly less internal scatter than the global calibration data set. Thus, this calibration data set can be used to improve both the precision and accuracy of exposure dating of regional late-glacial events. For example, if the global calibration data set is used to calculate exposure ages, the exposure-age deglaciation chronology for central New England is inconsistent with the deglaciation chronology inferred from radiocarbon dating and varve stratigraphy. We show that using the regional data set instead makes the exposure age and radiocarbon chronologies consistent. This increases confidence in correlating exposure ages of ice-marginal landforms in northeastern North America with glacial and climate events dated by other means.  相似文献   

A reevaluation of in situ cosmogenic 3He production rates     

Brent M. Goehring  Mark D. Kurz  Greg Balco  Joerg M. Schaefer  Joseph Licciardi  Nathaniel Lifton 《Quaternary Geochronology》2010,5(4):410-418

³He is among the most commonly measured terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides, but an incomplete understanding of the ³He production rate has limited robust interpretation of cosmogenic ³He concentrations. We use new measurements of cosmogenic ³He in olivine from a well-dated lava flow at Tabernacle Hill, Utah, USA, to calibrate the local ³He production rate. The new ³He measurements (n = 8) show excellent internal consistency and yield a sea level high latitude (SLHL) production rate of 123 ± 4 at g^?1 yr^?1 following the Lal (1991)/Stone (2000) scaling model [Lal, D., 1991. Cosmic ray labeling of erosion surfaces: in situ nuclide production rates and erosion models. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 104, 424–439.; Stone, J.O., 2000. Air pressure and cosmogenic isotope production. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 23753–23759.]. We incorporate the new measurements from Tabernacle Hill in a compilation of all published production rate determinations, characterizing the mean global SLHL production rates (e.g. 120 ± 9.4 at g^?1 yr^?1 with Lal (1991)/Stone (2000)). The internal consistency of the global ³He production rate dataset is as good as the other commonly used cosmogenic nuclides. Additionally, ³He production rates in olivine and pyroxene agree within experimental error. The ³He production rates are implemented in an age and erosion rate calculator, forming a new module of the CRONUS-Earth web-based calculator, a simple platform for cosmogenic nuclide data interpretation [Balco, G., Stone, J., Lifton, N.A., and Dunai, T.J., 2008. A complete and easily accessible means of calculating surface exposure ages or erosion rates from ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al measurements. Quaternary Geochronology, 3, 174–195.]. The ³He calculator is available online at http://www.cronuscalculators.nmt.edu/.  相似文献   

Partial amorphization of experimentally shocked plagioclase: A spectroscopic study     

Lidia Pittarello  Joerg Fritz  Julia Roszjar  Christoph Lenz  Chutimun Chanmuang N.  Christian Koeberl 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2020,55(3):669-678

Shock amorphization of plagioclase, from partial to complete, has been used to evaluate the degree of shock in meteorites. Important information on the shock amplitude can be derived from the measurement of the refractive index in plagioclase, either from mineral separates or in petrographic thin sections. However, this technique is time‐consuming, and associated sample preparations are considered destructive and are not always possible for precious and rare meteorite samples. In addition, plagioclase amorphization is commonly inhomogeneous at the sample scale and a statistically meaningful number of grains must be considered. Here, we apply several nondestructive spectroscopic techniques, such as Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence, and cathodoluminescence, to plagioclase experimentally shocked at 28 GPa, and thus in the transition regime between crystalline plagioclase and fully amorphous material. Most of the plagioclase was transformed into diaplectic glass at 28 GPa, yet some grains exhibit heterogeneously distributed crystalline domains. This confirms that intrinsic and extrinsic factors lead to local variations in the intensity of the shock pressure within individual plagioclase crystals of homogeneous composition. The amorphization of plagioclase can qualitatively (and potentially also quantitatively) be investigated by spectroscopic techniques, highlighting such local variations in the shock efficiency.  相似文献   

Moisture expansion as a deterioration factor for sandstone used in buildings   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

Joerg Ruedrich  Tobias Bartelsen  Reiner Dohrmann  Siegfried Siegesmund 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2011,63(7-8):1545-1564

The expansion processes that develop in building stones upon changes of moisture content may be an important contributing factor for their deteriorations. Until recently, few data could be found in the literature concerning this parameter and weathering processes. Moreover, the processes that may be responsible for the moisture related expansion of natural building stones are not yet completely understood. To further elucidate this process, extensive mineralogical, petrophysical and fabric investigations were performed on eight German sandstones in order to obtain more information regarding the weathering process and its dependence on the rock fabric. The analysed sandstones show a wide range of pore size distributions and porosities. A positive correlation with the fabric and the pore space can be found for all studied petrophysical parameters. The intensity of the expansion and related swelling pressure cannot be attributed only to the swelling of clay minerals. The investigations suggest that the micropores and the resulting disjoining pressure during wet/dry cycles also play an important role. The results obtained suggest that the mechanism is related to the presence of liquid water within the porous material.  相似文献   

Development and assessment of protective winter covers for marble statuaries of the Schlossbrücke, Berlin (Germany)     

Joerg Ruedrich  York Rieffel  Stephan Pirskawetz  Holger Alpermann  Ute Joksch  Christoph Gengnagel  Frank Weise  Rudolph Plagge  Jianhua Zhao  Siegfried Siegesmund 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2011,63(7-8):1823-1848

The present study documents the results of an inter-disciplinary model project that was planned with the aim of developing an innovative winter covering system for marble statuaries located on the Schlossbrücke (Berlin). Such a system would need to fulfil the various requirements for structural stability, aesthetics, climate and practical use. This applied research represents the first complex scientific study of the sustainability of a winter covering system. The study is characterised by the use of complex scientific instruments such as special laboratory analysis and numerical simulation tools. The interaction between the environment and the artefacts in connection with the innovative winter covering structures were studied by extensive climatic monitoring.  相似文献   

Relative timing of last glacial maximum and late-glacial events in the central tropical Andes     

Gordon R.M. Bromley  Joerg M. Schaefer  Gisela Winckler  Brenda L. Hall  Claire E. Todd  Kurt M. Rademaker 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(23-24):2514-2526

Whether or not tropical climate fluctuated in synchrony with global events during the Late Pleistocene is a key problem in climate research. However, the timing of past climate changes in the tropics remains controversial, with a number of recent studies reporting that tropical ice age climate is out of phase with global events. Here, we present geomorphic evidence and an in-situ cosmogenic ³He surface-exposure chronology from Nevado Coropuna, southern Peru, showing that glaciers underwent at least two significant advances during the Late Pleistocene prior to Holocene warming. Comparison of our glacial-geomorphic map at Nevado Coropuna to mid-latitude reconstructions yields a striking similarity between Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and Late-Glacial sequences in tropical and temperate regions.Exposure ages constraining the maximum and end of the older advance at Nevado Coropuna range between 24.5 and 25.3 ka, and between 16.7 and 21.1 ka, respectively, depending on the cosmogenic production rate scaling model used. Similarly, the mean age of the younger event ranges from 10 to 13 ka. This implies that (1) the LGM and the onset of deglaciation in southern Peru occurred no earlier than at higher latitudes and (2) that a significant Late-Glacial event occurred, most likely prior to the Holocene, coherent with the glacial record from mid and high latitudes. The time elapsed between the end of the LGM and the Late-Glacial event at Nevado Coropuna is independent of scaling model and matches the period between the LGM termination and Late-Glacial reversal in classic mid-latitude records, suggesting that these events in both tropical and temperate regions were in phase.  相似文献   

Late glacial and holocene 10Be production rates for western Norway     

Brent M. Goehring  Øystein Strand Lohne  Jan Mangerud  John Inge Svendsen  Richard Gyllencreutz  Joerg Schaefer  Robert Finkel 《第四纪科学杂志》2012,27(1):89-96

We present a new regional calibration of the ¹⁰Be production rate from two well‐dated surfaces in southern Norway: a rock avalanche with ¹⁴C‐dated wood and a precisely dated Younger Dryas moraine. Calculated ¹⁰Be production rates are 4.26 ± 0.13 and 4.65 ± 0.14 at g^?1 a^?1 for the Lal/Stone and Lifton scaling models, respectively. Our regional production rate for southern Norway is 5% lower than the canonical global ¹⁰Be production rate with lower uncertainties. Our ¹⁰Be production rate agrees with regional ¹⁰Be production rates from north‐eastern North America and New Zealand. The ¹⁰Be production rate estimate presented here can be used to improve the precision and accuracy of exposure‐dated ice‐marginal features, as well as other surfaces, in northern Europe. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

High-resolution body wave tomography beneath the SVEKALAPKO array – II. Anomalous upper mantle structure beneath the central Baltic Shield     

Senén Sandoval  Edi Kissling  Joerg Ansorge  the SVEKALAPKO Seismic Tomography Working Group 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,157(1):200-214

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Paleomagnetic investigations of the tertiary and quaternary rocks: IX The pliocene of southeast Sicily and some Cretaceous rocks from Capo Passero     

Prof. C. B. Gregor  Prof. Dr. Alan E. M. Nairn  Dr. Joerg F. W. Negendank 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1975,64(1):948-958

A sampling of Plio-Pleistocene and Upper Cretaceous basalts in SE Sicily yielded the following informationAssuming that the Cretaceous direction is reversed, the confidence oval for the virtual pole overlaps that for the Cretaceous pole of Africa determined from the Mlanje Syenite byMcElhinny et al. If SE Sicily was attached to Africa when these Upper Cretaceous lavas erupted, this result implies that extensive relative movement between the two is not likely to have occurred subsequently.

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Zusammenfassung Die Aufsammlung und Untersuchung plio-pleistozäner und oberkretazischer Basalte in SE-Sizilien ergab die folgende paläomagnetische InformationUnter der Annahme einer inversen kretazischen Feld-Richtung überlappt der Konfidenzkreis des virtuellen Pols den kretazischen magnetischen Pol für Afrika, der vonMcElhinny et al. an den Gesteinen des Mlanje Syenites bestimmt wurde.Wenn SE-Sizilien zur Zeit der Extrusion dieser oberkretazischen Laven an Afrika angeheftet war, dann besagt dieses Ergebnis, da\ eine extensive relative Bewegung zwischen diesen beiden schwerlich nacheinander stattgefunden hat.

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Résumé La compilation et l'analyse de basaltes d'âge plio-pleistocène et crétacique supérieur dans la SE-Sicile fournit l'information paléomagnétique suivanteDans l'acceptation d'un champ inversé au Crétacique, le cercle de confidence du pÔle virtuel recouvre le pÔle magnétique crétacique pour l'Afrique, tel queMcElhinny et al. l'ont déduit des roches de la Syénite de Mlanje. Si l'on rattache le SE de la Sicile à l'Afrique au moment de l'éruption de ces laves du Crétacique supérieur, ce résultat signifie qu'il est peu probable qu'un mouvement relatif extensif ait eu lieu entre les deux.

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Semantic Execution Meets Geospatial Web Services: A Pilot Application     

Raluca Zaharia  Laurentiu Vasiliu  Joerg Hoffman  Eva Klien 《Transactions in GIS》2008,12(Z1):59-73

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