Accelerator mass spectrometry of 10Be, 14C, 26Al, 36Cl, 41Ca, 129I
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Research publications related to AMS

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  • HYDROLOGY
    • Chlorine-36 dating of old ground water in sedimentary basins
    • FA87a Applications of 129I and 36Cl in hydrology
    • FO94a Accelerator mass spectrometry in hydrolgoy
    • PH88a Chlorine-36 and tritium from nuclear weapons fallout as tracers for long-term liquid and vapor movement in desert soils
    • FE92a 129I and 36Cl concentrations in waters of the eastern Clear Lake area, California: Residence times and source ages of hydrothermal fluids
    • BE86b Chlorine-36 in the terrestrial environment
    • BE86c Chlorine-36 dating of very old ground water 1. The Great Artesian Basin, Australia
    • TO91b Chlorine 36 dating of very old groundwater 3. Further studies in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia
    • BE82b Thermonuclear 36Cl pulse in natural water
    • ST93a Reconstruction of late glacial climates from the groundwater archieve Cl- and 36cl in the Carrizo Aquifer, Texas
    • PU96A Aquia aquifer dissolved Cl- and 36Cl/Cl measurements: Implications for flow velocities
    • PH95A The use of isotopes and environmental tracers in subsurface hydrology
    • PH95C Chlorine-36 in Great Basin waters: revisited
    • LY98a Chlorine-36 in the waters of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica: Revisited
    • DA98A Chlorine-36 and the initial value problem
    • YE96A The source and age of groundwater brines in the Dead Sea area, as deduced from 36 Cl and 14 C
    • PA86B A new 36 Cl hydrological model and 36 Cl systematics in the Jordon River/Dead Sea system
    • FE94A Dating and tracing of fluids using 129 I and 36 Cl: results from geothermal fluids, oil field brines and formation waters
    • KA90C The 36 Cl ages of the brines in the Magadi-Natron basin, East Africa
  • EXPOSURE AGE DATING
    • DO91B Surface exposure dating: Review and critical evaluation
    • NI91c Cosmic ray produced 10Be and 26Al in Antarctic rocks: exposure and erosion history
    • NI89i Cosmic ray production rates of 10Be and 26Al in quartz from glacially polished rocks
    • NI93b Role of in situ cosmogenic nuclides 10Be and 26Al in the study of diverse geomorphic processes
    • LA91a Cosmic ray labeling of erosion surfaces: in situ nuclide production rates and erosion models
    • ZR91a Cosmogenic chlorine-36 production rates in terrestrial rocks
    • PH90a Cosmogenic chlorine-36 chronology for glacial deposits at Bloody Canyon, Eastern Sierra Nevada
    • KU90g Cosmic ray exposure dating with in situ produced cosmogenic 3He: Results from young Hawaiian lava flows
    • PH91a Age and geomorphic history of Meteor Crater, Arizona, from cosmogenic 36Cl and 14C in rocks varnish
    • NI91a In situ 10Be-26Al exposure ages at Meteor Crater, Arizona
    • ZR93a Cosmogenic 36Cl dating of a young basaltic eruption complex, Lathrop Wells, Nevada
    • BI95b Estimating erosion rates and exposure ages with 36Cl produced by neutron activation
    • DE93c Experimental methods for rock coring and determining in-situ produced cosmogenic 36Cl in quartz
    • DE94a Production rate systematics of in-situ-production cosmogenic nuclides in terrestrial rocks: Monte Carlo approach of investigating 35Cl(n,gamma)36Cl
    • DE94b Depth dependence of cosmogenic neutron-capture-produced 36Cl in a terrestrial rock
    • BI95B Estimating erosion rates and exposure ages with 36Cl produced by neutron activation
    • BI96B Estimating rates of denudation using cosmogenic isotope abundances in sediment
    • GR96D Spatially averaged long-term erosion rates measured from in-situ-produced cosmogenic nu clides in alluvial sediment
    • GR97C Quaternary downcutting rate of the New River, Virginia, measured from differential decay of cosmogenic 26Al and 10Be in cave-deposited alluvium
    • DU99B Scaling of cosmogenic nuclide production rates for geometric shielding and attenuation at depth on sloped surfaces
    • DE97A Erosion-corrected ages of quaternary geomorphic events using cosmogenic 36Cl inrocks
    • NI96B Cosmogenic production of 7Be and 10Be in water targets
    • LI96A Analluvial surface chronology based on cosmogenic 36Cl dating, Ajo Mountains (Mountain Pipe Cactus National Monument), southern Arizona
    • ZR95B Insights into alpine moraine development from cosmogenic 36Cl buildup dating
    • PH95D Cosmogenic chlorine-36 accumulation: A method for dating quaternary landforms
    • PH96B A reevaluation of cosmogenic 36Cl production rates in terrestrial rocks
    • PH96E Chronology for fluctuations in Late Pleistocene Sierra Nevada glaciers and lakes
    • PL96a 36Cl in fossil rat urine: An archive of cosmogenic nuclide deposition over the past 40 kyr
    • PH97a Maximum ages of the Coa valley (Portugal) engravings measured with Chlorine-36
    • ZR98a Ages of prehistoric earthquakes revealed by cosmogenic chlorine-36 in a bedrock fault scarp at Hebgren Lake
    • ZR99a Unblocking of the Nares Strait by Greenland and Ellesmere ice-sheet retreat 10,000 years ago
  • RADIOCARBON
  • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
    • BE93a Chlorine-36 in the Snake River Plain Aquifer at the Idaho National EngineeringLaboratory: Origin and implications
    • BE92a Chlorine-36 releases from the Savannah River Site Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facilities
    • FA93b Distribution of chlorine-36 in the unsaturated zone at Yucca Mountain: An indicator of fast transport paths
    • ST92b Neutron discrepancies in the DS86 Hiroshima dosimetry system
    • YI94a 129I from nuclear fuel reprocessing potential as an oceanographic tracer
  • ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
    • KN94c 7Be,10Be,36Cl,7Be in precipitation
    • WA84c 7Be,36Cl,10Be in filters from stratospheric air and in midlatitude precipitation
    • BE94e 10Be as an indicator of solar variability and climate
  • OCEAN SCIENCE
    • SC95A 129I, in Gulf of Mexico waters
    • SC95B Prospects for "iodine-129 dating" of marine organic matter using AMS
    • SO96A 10Be and Al concentrations in an Arctic core: Implications to climate and sedimentation
    • SA96A Iodine-129 as a water tracer in the Middle Atlantic Bight
  • SOIL SCIENCE
    • MO94a Garden variety 10Be in soils on hill slopes
    • PA93b Application of paleomagnetic and 10Be analyses to chronostratigraphy of Alpine glacio-fluvial terraces, Sava River Valley, Slovenia
    • BE92C The use of natural 14C and 13C in soils for studies on global climate change
    • LI94f Depth dependence of soil carbonate accumulation based on cosmogenic 36Cl dating
    • VA86b Detection of erosion events using 10Be profiles: example of the impact of agriculture on soil erosion in the Chesapeake Bay area (USA)
  • EVAPORITES
    • MA86b 36Cl in a halite layer from the bottom of the Dead Sea
    • PH93a 230Th/234U and 36Cl dating of evaporite deposits from the western Qaidam Basin, China: Implications for glacial-period dust export from Central Asia
    • PH83a Chlorine-36 dating of saline sediments: Preliminary results from Searles Lake, California
    • JA91a A 36Cl chronology of lacustrine sedimentation in the Pleistocene Owens River system
  • METEORITES
    • LI92d Consortium study of the unusual H chondrite regolith breccia, Noblesville
    • MI94e Aluminum 26, 10Be, and 36Cl depth profiles in the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite
    • MI95a Chemicalstudies of H chondrites 5. Temporal variations of sources
    • WA94a Labile trace elements and cosmogenic radionuclides in chondritic hosts of three consortium igneous inclusions
    • WO95a Meteoroid streams: Evidence from meteorites recovered on Earth
    • LI95e Meteorite studies: Terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications, 1995
    • WO97a Chemical studies of H chondrites 8: On contemporary meteoroid streams
  • BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCES
    • BR99a Aluminum and phosphorus separation: application to preparation of target from brain tissue for 26Al determination by accelerator mass spectrometry
    • VO94a Accelerator mass spectrometry in biomedical research
    • EL87a Ultrasensitive radioisotope, stable isotope, and trace-element analysis in the biological sciences using tandem accelerator mass spectrometry
    • DA94a Biological chemistry of aluminum studied using 26Al and accelerator mass spectrometry
    • KI94c Aluminum and Alzheimer's disease: Sites of aluminum binding in human neuroblastoma cells determined using 26Al and accelerator mass spectrometry
    • FL94a 26Al: Summary of Purdue research projects
    • HO94a Medical applications of 26Al
    • EL90a Calcium-41 as a long term biological tracer for bone resorption
    • JO94b Calcium resporption from bone in a human studied by 41Ca tracing
    • SO94c 41Ca as a tracer for calcium uptake and deposition in heart tissue during ischemia and reperfusion
    • FL96b In-vivo absorption of aluminum-containing vaccine adjuvants using 26Al
    • FL96a Aluminum-26 as a biological tracer using accelerator mass spectrometry
    • RI99a Regeneration of tissue about an animal-based scaffold: AMS studies of the fate of the scaffold
    • JA99a The PRIME Lab Biomedical Program
  • AMS AND CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES
    • EL87b Accelerator mass spectrometry for measurement of long-lived radioisotopes
    • FI93a AMS in the earth sciences: Technique and applications
    • KL82b Modifications of an FN tandem for quantitative 10Be measurement
    • MI83d Accelerator mass spectrometry with 26Al
    • EL79a Analysis of 36Cl in environmental water samples using an electrostatic accelerator
    • FI90b 41Ca: Measurement by accelerator mass spectrometry and applications
    • EL80c Determination of 129I using tandem accelerator mass spectrometry
    • EL97a Status and plans for the PRIME Lab AMS facility
    • VO94d PRIME Lab Chemistry operations
    • KN94b The PRIME Lab gas ionization detector
    • MI93c Data analysis automation for AMS
    • PU94a Upgrading program for the FN Tandem and AMS system at PRIME Lab
    • PE97A Reducing the magnet switching time for AMS at PRIME Lab
  • FACILITY REPORTS
    • SH97A The PRIM E Lab external research program
    • SH97B The 129I AMS program at PRIME Lab
    • EL99A Accelerator mass spectrometry for measurement of cosmogenic radionuclides
    • FI99a Accelerator mass spectrometry and its appications
    • SH99a PRIME Lab AMS performance upgrades, and research applications
  • THESES
    • MI94f Ed Michlovich: Cosmogenic radionuclides in meteorites: Depth profiles in Canyon Diablo and temporal variation in H chondrite sources
    • KN94d David Knies: Cosmogenic radionuclides in precipitation
    • DE95a Linus Dep: Cosmogenic radionuclide production in terrestrial rocks: Accelerator mass spectrometry measurements and Monte Carlo simulations
    • BH94b Binal Bhukhanwala: Dual controller scheme for rapid magnet cycling
    • MC97b Melanie L. McQuinn: Refined late Wisconsin chronostratigraphy of Indiana using in-situ cosmogenic radionuclies 10Be and 26Al
    • DU98a Adam Dunne: Calibration of the method of exposure dating of geomorphic surfaces on the earth using in-situ-produced cosmogenic radionuclides, and applications in the Central Andes
    • FL97b Richard Flarend: Aluminum-26 as a biological tracer using accelerator mass spectrometry
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