[meteorite-list] Cosmic Dust influx Over The Last 10,000 Years????

From: Bernd Pauli HD <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:25 2004
Message-ID: <3D6F5B15.CEFF0474_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Keith wrote:

> Does anyone know of any studies that have measured, using deep
> sea cores, varved lake deposits, or any other means the inlfux of
> cosmic dust over the last 10,000 years (also called the "Holocene"
> Epoch by geologists)?

> Has anybody studied whether the influx of cosmic dust and
> meteorites has varied significantly over the last 10,000 years?
> If so, does anyone have any citations or names they can post
> in reply to this inquiry?


Hello Keith and List,

Here are several references. Maybe they are helpful:

YIOU F. et al. (1991) The micrometeorite flux to the earth, during the
last ~200 000 years as deduced from cosmic spherule concentration in
Antarctic ice cores (abs. Meteoritics 26-4, 1991, 412):

°On the basis of this earlier work, we estimated the average flux of
spherules (> 50µ) as ca. 1500 tons/yr during the past 100,000 years."


DENTON G.H. et al. (1989) Late Wisconsin and early Holocene glacial
history, inner Ross Embayrnent, Antarctica (Quatern. Res. 31, 151-182).

REEH N. et al. (1990) A detailed oxygen-18 profile from the Greenland
ice-sheet margin through the Wisconsinan-Holocene transition
(abs. Ann.of Glaciol. 14, 356).

MURRELL M.T. et al. (1980) Deep sea spherules from pacific clay:
Mass distribution and influx rate (GCA 44, 2067-2074).

BORG J. et al. (1991) Detection of cosmic dust particles: data from
COMET experiment and FRECOPA payload (Meteoritics 26-4, 1991, A321).

MURRAY J. et al. (1883) On the measurement characters of volcanic ashes
and cosmic dust and their origin in deep-sea sediment deposits
(Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 12, 474-495).

THIEL K. et al. (1987) Does there exist an accumulation mechanism for
cosmic dust in Antarctic shelf ice? (abs. Meteoritics 22-4, 1987, 515).

MAURETTE M. et al. (1987) Characteristics and mass distribution of
extraterrestrial dust from the Greenland ice cap (Nature 328, 699-702).

MAURETTE M. et al. (1986) Placers of cosmic dust in the blue
ice lakes of Greenland (Science 233, 869-872).

RAISBECK G. et al. (1987) 10Be and 26Al in micrometeorites
from Greenland ice (Meteoritics 22, 485).

HAGEN E. (1988) Geochemical studies of Neogene till in the
Transantarctic Mountains: Evidence for an extraterrestrial
component (M.S. thesis, Ohio State Univ., Columbus. 270 pp.).

KOEBERL C., et al. (1988a) Chemical composition and morphology of
meteorite ablation spherules in Neogene till in the Dominion Range,
Transantarctic Mountains (abs. Lunar Planet. Sci. 19, 625-626).

KOEBERL C. et al. (1989) Extraterrestrial spherules in glacial sediment
from the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Structure, mineralogy,
and chemical composition (GCA 53, 937-944).

MAURETTE M. et al. (1989) High resolution microscope studies of Cap-
Prudhomme chondritic micrometeorites (abs. Meteoritics 24-4, 1989, 300).

HARVEY R. et al. (1990) The best cosmic dust source in the world?
The origin and significance of the Walcott Neve, Antarctica micro-
meteorites (abs. Lun.Plan.Sci. 21, 467-468).

HARVEY R. et al. (1991) The origin and significance of cosmic dust from
the Walcott Névé, Antarctica (Proc. Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf 21st,
569-578).

MAURETTE M. et al. (1992) Cosmic dust in about 50kg blocks of blue
ice from Cap Prudhomme and Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica
(abs. Meteoritics 27-3, 1992, 257).

YADA T. et al. (2000) The accretion rates of cosmic dust on the Earth
based on the concentrations of micrometeorites in bare ice around the
Yamato Mountains (MAPS 35-5, 2000, Suppl., A173).

BLANCHARD M.B. et al. (1980) Meteoroid ablation spheres from
deep-sea sediments (Earth Planet.Sci. Lett. 46, 178-190).


Best regards,

Bernd
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