[meteorite-list] Beryllium-10 Study on the Origin of Tektites
From: Paul <bristolia_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <697952.49261.qm_at_web36207.mail.mud.yahoo.com> While looking for something else I came across an interesting tektite study. It is; Serefiddin, F., G. F. Herzog, and C. Koeberl, 2007, Beryllium-10 concentrations of tektites from the Ivory Coast and from Central Europe: Evidence for near-surface residence of precursor materials. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 1574-1582 (March 15, 2007) doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.12.007 To get the abstract of this article enter the above doi number in the box at http://dx.doi.org they concluded: "Although not definitive, consideration of several possible cosmic-ray exposure histories suggests that about half the interior 10Be has a meteoric origin, which if corrected to the time of formation yields a concentration compatible with those measured in typical contemporary soils. The observations are consistent with the formation of three of the four main tektite groups from surface soils or sediments." Yours, Paul H. Received on Thu 29 May 2008 12:52:31 PM PDT |
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