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:
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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
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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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