10Be - 26Al exposure age calculator


For calculating an exposure age when erosion rate is known independently.

Multiple sample form -- Kelly et al. (2013) Huancane moraines/Quelccaya ice cap calibration data set

Uses nersion 2.2 code. October, 2013.

Written by Greg Balco, balcs@u.washington.edu

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Notes:

Be-10 calibration data from:

Kelly, M.A., Lowell, T.V., Applegate, P.J., Phillips, F.M., Schaefer, J.M., Smith, C.A., Kim, H., Leonard, K.C., Hudson, A.M., 2013. A locally calibrated, late glacial Be-10 production rate from a low-latitude, high-altitude site in the Peruvian Andes. Quaternary Geochronology.

Calibration data: text file

Differences between the reference Be-10 production rates inferred from the calibration data in the table below and those reported in the source paper are due to differences in the code used to do the calculation and, to a lesser extent, rounding errors. To ensure consistency between production rate calibration and exposure-age calculations, the values in the table below are calculated using the same code that is used to compute the exposure ages in the online calculator.

Kelly et al. did not report Al-26 concentrations. Thus, reference production rates for Al-26 in the table below are calculated from those for Be-10 using (P26 / P10) = 6.75.


Scaling scheme Reference Be-10 Percentage Reduced Reference Al-26
for spallation production rate (atoms/g/yr) uncertainty chi-squared production rate (atoms/g/yr)

St3.85+/-0.092.32.0325.96+/-0.60
De3.01+/-0.072.22.1120.32+/-0.45
Du3.07+/-0.072.22.2720.71+/-0.46
Li3.34+/-0.082.32.2822.51+/-0.51
Lm3.64+/-0.082.32.1524.54+/-0.57


Sample data entry:

Enter data block here.

Note change in Version 2.2:

Production rates and decay constants have been updated in this version to reflect the Be-10 restandardization and half-life revision in Nishiizumi et al., 2007. Thus, you must now specify the standard to which your Be-10 and Al-26 measurements have been normalized. This means that two input fields, the Be-10 and Al-26 standard names, have been added. You'll need to add two columns to your spreadsheets before cutting and pasting data. Refer to the new example spreadsheet here. For a list of currently available standards, see this page.


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