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OSL-14C-10Be: A novel composite geochronometer for simultaneous quantification of timing and magnitude of change in bedrock outcrop erosion rate

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EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 322-331

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/esp.5487

Keywords

cosmogenic nuclides; erosion rate; exposure age; landscape evolution; OSL surface exposure dating

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Quantifying past changes in erosion rate is crucial for understanding earth surface processes. This study proposes a theoretical framework to overcome the limitations of previous methods by combining OSL dating with C-14-Be-10 chronometer, which allows for determining both the magnitude and timing of erosion rate changes.
Quantifying past changes in erosion rate is essential for deciphering earth surface processes and their driving mechanisms. Coupled in situ cosmogenic C-14-Be-10 has been shown to be a useful chronometer in detecting changes in erosion rate, but its detection ability is limited to rapidly eroding fluvial landscapes and changes greater than a factor of two; and in any case, it cannot uniquely quantify both the magnitude and the timing of change in erosion rate. Here, we establish a theoretical framework to show that this limitation can be overcome by combining the recently developed optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) rock surface exposure dating with the C-14-Be-10 chronometer. We demonstrate that the resulting OSL-C-14-Be-10 composite geochronometer can determine both the magnitude and the timing of an abrupt change in bedrock erosion rate by a factor of < 0.8 or > 1.2 over 10(0)-10(4) a timescales, where erosion rates are < 10(-2) cm a(-1).

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