Cosmic-Ray-Produced Noble Gases in Meteorites
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Mineralogical Society of America in Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
- Vol. 47 (1) , 125-170
- https://doi.org/10.2138/rmg.2002.47.5
Abstract
Energetic particles of the galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) have a mean penetration depth in rock of about 50 cm, comparable to the typical size of a meteorite. GCR-induced effects therefore provide a means to study the history of meteorites as small objects in space or in the top few meters of their parent body. These effects include cosmic ray tracks, i.e., the radiation damage trails in a crystal lattice produced by heavy ions in the GCR (Fleischer et al. 1975), and thermoluminescence, i.e., the light emitted by a heated sample which had been irradiated by energetic particles (...Keywords
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