HR: 1340h
AN: U33A-0001    [Abstracts]
TI: CRONUS-EU Cosmic Ray Produced Nuclide Systematics - The European Contribution
AU: * Dunai, T J
EM: tibor.dunai@ed.ac.uk
AF: University of Edinburgh, School of GeoScience, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP United Kingdom
AU: Benedetti, L
EM: benedetti@cerege.fr
AF: CNRS, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, 13545 France
AU: van der Borg, K
EM: K.vanderBorg@phys.uu.nl
AF: University Utrecht, Physics, Utrecht, 3584 CB Netherlands
AU: von Blanckenburg, F
EM: fvb@mineralogie.uni-hannover.de
AF: Univ. Hannover, Inst. f. Mineralogie, Callinstr. 3, Hannover, 30167 Germany
AU: Ivy-Ochs, S
EM: ivy@phys.ethz.ch
AF: ETH, Physics, H”nggerberg HPF G 9.2, Zurich, 8093 Switzerland
AU: Korschinek, G
EM: Gunter.Korschinek@physik.tu-muenchen.de
AF: TU-Munchen, Physics, James Franck Str., Garching, 85748 Germany
AU: Masarik, J
EM: masarik@fmph.uniba.sk
AF: Comenius University Comenius University Comenius University Comenius University Comenius University Comenius University, Mlynsk  dolina, Bratislava, 842 48 Slovakia (Slovak Republic) AU: Niedermann, S
EM: nied@gfz-potsdam.de
AF: GFZ, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, 14473
AU: Pik, R
EM: rpik@crpg.cnrs-nancy.fr
AF: CNRS, CRPG, 15 rue Notre Dame des Pauvres, Vandoeuvre lŠs Nancy, 54501 France
AU: Stuart, F
EM: F.Stuart@surrc.gla.ac.uk
AF: Univ. Glasgow, SUERC, East Kilbride, G75 0QF United Kingdom
AU: Wieler, R
EM: wieler@erdw.ethz.ch
AF: ETH, Institut fr Isotopengeologie und Mineralische Rohstoffe - ETH Zentrum, Zurich, 8092 Switzerland
AU: Wijbrans, J
EM: jan.wijbrans@falw.vu.nl
AF: Vrije Universiteit, FALW, de Boelelaan 1085, Amsterdam, 1081 HV Netherlands
AB: The main objective of the CRONUS-EU is to advance Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) techniques into a robust tool for Earth surface and environmental sciences. CRONUS-EU aims to achieve this goal via: (1) High quality calibration of TCN production rates at independently dated surfaces (2) High quality calibration of TCN production rates using artificial targets (3) Systematic cross calibration of production rates of different TCNs (4) Refinement of scaling factors that describe the spatial and temporal variation of the cosmic ray flux relevant for TCN production using calibration measurements and numerical modeling from physical principles (5) Reducing the uncertainty of decay constants (6) Establishing the use of additional mineral phases in exposure age dating (7) Improvement and standardization of chemical routines (8) Laboratory cross calibrations (9) Training of young researchers and the user community The effort necessary to achieve above goal is significant even for the strong network teams in CRONUS-EU. To strengthen our effort and to achieve international evaluation and acceptance, we are seeking close collaboration with CRONUS-Earth, the parallel-running northern American sister initiative that obtained funding through NSF. Formal links between the two initiatives are established and each consortium will address complementary aspects to achieve the common goal. CRONUS-EU is a Marie-Curie Research and Training program, supported by the European Community's Program: Improving the Human Research Potential and the Socio-economic Knowledge base. www.cronus-eu.net
DE: 1100 GEOCHRONOLOGY
DE: 1115 Radioisotope geochronology
DE: 1130 Geomorphological geochronology
DE: 1150 Cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating (4918)
SC: Union [U]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005