A tale of two bogs - new 10Be production rates from UK and NZ calibrated by basal 14C ages

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dc.contributor.authorFink, Den_AU
dc.contributor.authorHughes, PDen_AU
dc.contributor.authorFülöp, RHen_AU
dc.contributor.authorWilcken, KMen_AU
dc.contributor.authorAdams, PMen_AU
dc.contributor.authorCraig, Wen_AU
dc.contributor.authorShulmeister, Jen_AU
dc.contributor.authorFujioka, Ten_AU
dc.contributor.authorRyan, Pen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-30T21:30:50Zen_AU
dc.date.available2023-03-30T21:30:50Zen_AU
dc.date.issued2021-04-19en_AU
dc.date.statistics2023-03-27en_AU
dc.description.abstractCosmogenic production rates (PRs) are the essential conversion factor between AMS cosmogenic concentrations and absolute exposure ages. The accuracy of cosmogenic glacial chronologies and reliability in their comparison to other paleoclimate systems is largely contingent on the precision and accuracy of the adopted production rate. This is particularly critical in determining past glacial geochronologies at the scale of millennial temporal resolution. Most PR calibrations are carried out at deglaciation sites where radiocarbon provides the independent chronometric control usually based on 14C ages in basal sediments or varves from lake or bog cores which is assumed to represent the minimum age for glacial retreat. Under these conditions and hence provide PRs as maximum values. Given that today most AMS facilities can deliver 10-Be, 26-Al and 36-Cl data with total analytical errors less than 2% ( for 10 ka exposure), the precision of a PR remains largely dependent on the error in the independent chronology and accuracy of AMS standards. The history over the past 20 years of the ever-decreasing value of SLHL 10-Be cosmogenic spallation PRs from initial estimates of about 7 atoms/g/a to the current ‘accepted‘ (global average) values of ~4 atoms/g/a, is an interesting story in itself and demonstrates the complexity in such determinations. Over the past few years new web-based calculators are now available to calculate uniformly new production rates from either new data or combinations of any set of published data (CRONUS-Earth, CRONUS-UW, CosmoCalc, ICE-D, CREp). This delivers a means by which new production rates can be seamlessly integrated and compared using identical constants, methods and statistics that were used to generate (currently accepted) global average or regional production rates. For the British Isles, there are a number of 10-Be reference sites that give PRs (Lm scheme) between 3.89±3% atoms/g/a (Putnam, QG, v50, 2019) to 4.20±1% atoms/g/a (Small, JQS, v30, 2015) which convert to 3.95 and 4.28, respectively, using datasets in the ICE-D calculator). This difference in 10-Be spallation PRs has recently raised some debate and challenges for the timing of the local-LGM and demise of the British Ice Sheet. This work provides a new British Isles site specific 10Be PR from the Arenig Mountains in North Wales where radiocarbon dating of basal sediments from a bog core associated with a series of nearby cirque moraines provides independent age control. Similarly in the South Island of New Zealand, the current accepted 10Be PR is 3.76±2% (Putnam, QG 2009; converts to 3.94±1% using ICE-D) and is the only available PR that is used for these southern hemispheric glacial sites. This work provides a new Australasian site specific 10Be PR from Arthurs Pass retreat moraines where radiocarbon dating of basal sediments from three cores extracted from a bog impounded by the moraine provides independent age control.en_AU
dc.identifier.citationFink, D., Hughes, P., Fulop, R., Wilcken, K., Adams, P., Woodward, C., Shulmeister, J., Fujioka, T., & Ryan, P. (2021). A tale of two bogs - new 10Be production rates from UK and NZ calibrated by basal 14C ages. Paper presented to the EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14132. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14132en_AU
dc.identifier.conferenceenddate30 April 2021en_AU
dc.identifier.conferencenameEGU General Assembly 2021en_AU
dc.identifier.conferenceplaceOnlineen_AU
dc.identifier.conferencestartdate19 April 2021en_AU
dc.identifier.otherEGU21-14132en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14132en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/14756en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherCopernicus GmbHen_AU
dc.subjectBasalten_AU
dc.subjectCarbon 14en_AU
dc.subjectAtomsen_AU
dc.subjectMorainesen_AU
dc.subjectStandardsen_AU
dc.subjectDataen_AU
dc.titleA tale of two bogs - new 10Be production rates from UK and NZ calibrated by basal 14C agesen_AU
dc.typeConference Paperen_AU
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