Applications

Find out about applications for cosmogenic nuclide concentrations. For example, cosmogenic nuclide concentrations are commonly used to determine ‘exposure ages’ and ‘erosion rates’.

 

Some common examples include:

Rates of landscape change 

  • Rock surface erosion rates 
  • Land surface degradation rates 
  • Basin‐wide erosion rates 
  • River incision rates 
  • Modern erosion (meteoric 10Be) 
  • Fault‐slip rates

Exposure dating 

  • Glacier erosion/deposition surfaces: striated bedrock, erratics, moraines 
  • Fluvial and glaciofluvial terraces 
  • Buried sediments: caves, glacial till 
  • Rockfalls 
  • Fault scarps 
  • Lava flows 
  • Flood deposits 
  • Alluvial fans

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