Enhanced cosmic‐ray production of 10Be coincident with the Mono Lake and Laschamp Geomagnetic Excursions
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 22 (5) , 659-662
- https://doi.org/10.1029/95gl00169
Abstract
The cosmogenic isotope 10Be, total Be, and Al were measured in partly varved sediments from the upper 50 m of core 480, leg 64 (DSDP), Gulf of California. The concentration of 10Be from 1 to 50 kyr is in general agreement with estimates of the geomagnetic dipole moment obtained from archaeomagnetic and marine core research. 10Be anomalies were also found at 32 kyr and 43 kyr, contemporaneous with the Mono Lake and Laschamp excursions, respectively. The production of 10Be required to explain these anomalies is too high, particularly for the Mono Lake excursion, to be produced by a combination of decreased geomagnetic field and unprecedented long‐term solar activity. We conclude that the cause is a change in the galactic cosmic‐ray flux consistent with a supernova event. The coincidence with the two excursions remains a paradox.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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