cosmogenic

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But successively refined records of volcanism from ice core studies suggest that pulses of volcanism explain more decadal temperature variance than can be linear linked to cosmogenic isotope variations.

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  1. adjective Produced by cosmic rays.

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  • Remember there is a very large change in cosmogenic isotopes at the start of the Younger Dryas which is consistent with an abrupt change in the geomagnetic field. —  RealClimate
  • (There are cosmogenic isotope changes at the other abrupt climate changes.) —  RealClimate
  • He has pioneered the use of a new technique, cosmogenic isotope dating, that can pinpoint the age of a rockslide.
  • Here we report cosmogenic 26Al / 10Be burial dating of quartz sediments and artefacts from the lower strata of Locality 1 in the southwestern suburb of Beijing, China, where early representatives of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus were discovered. —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • Specifically, they noted that magnetic fields of the solar wind deflect portions of the primary flux of charged cosmic particles in the vicinity of the earth, leading to reductions in the creation of cosmogenic nuclides in earth's atmosphere. —  New Content on CO2 Science
 

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