Cold rocks, hot sands: in-situ cosmogenic applications in Australia at ANTARES

Fink, D; McKelvey, BC; Hannan, D; Newsome, D

Cold rocks, hot sands: in-situ cosmogenic applications in Australia at ANTARES

Date

2000-10

Authors

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

The ANTARES AMS facility at ANSTO is conducting a comprehensive program in the application of in-situ cosmogenic radionuclides based on strong university collaborations in the earth sciences. The program targets two major objectives: (1) to determine and improve the Quaternary glacial chronology of the Southern Hemisphere in support of global climate change studies; (2) to characterise the processes of surface weathering and landscape evolution in semi-arid regions of the Australian continent. An overview of the program is presented with preliminary results from the first phase of these studies. © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V.

Keywords

Evolution, Isotopes, Southern Hemisphere, Climatic change, Australia, Weathering

Citation

Fink, D., McKelvey, B., Hannan, D., & Newsome, D. (2000). Cold rocks, hot sands: in-situ cosmogenic applications in Australia at ANTARES. Presented at 8th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, 6 - 10 September 1999, Vienna, Austria. In Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 172(1–4), 838-846. doi:10.1016/S0168-583X(00)00199-3