The production of cosmogenic nuclides in stony meteoroids by galactic cosmic ray particles

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Mar 2000

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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 259-286 (2000).

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We present a purely physical model for the calculation of depth- and size-dependent production rates of cosmogenic nuclides by galactic cosmic ray particles. Besides the spectra of primary and secondary particles and the excitation functions of the underlying nuclear reactions the model is based on only one free parameter, the integral number of GCR particles in the meteoroid orbits. We derived this value from analysis of radionuclide data in Knyahinya. We also show that the mean GCR proton spectrum in the meteoroid orbits has been constant over about the last 10 Ma. For the major target elements in stony meteoroids we present depth- and size-dependent production rates for 10Be, 14C, 26Al, 36Cl, and 53Mn as well as for the rare gas isotopes 3He, 20Ne, 21Ne, 22Ne, 36Ar, and 38Ar. The new data differ from semi-empirical estimates by up to a factor of 4 but agree within about 20% with results obtained by earlier parametric or physical approaches. The depth- and size-dependence of the shielding parameter 22Ne/21Ne and the correlations 26Al vs.10Be, 26Al vs.53Mn, 10Be/21Ne vs. 22Ne/21Ne, and 36Ar vs. 36Cl for deciphering preatmospheric sizes, shielding depths, terrestrial residence times and exposure histories are also discussed.

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