Introduction to Cosmogenic Radionuclides

Abstract

In Part 2 we have discussed the cosmic radiation, one of the links between the Earth and the cosmos. Although called “cosmic radiation” it consists of particles originating mainly from our galaxy. These play a fundamental role in the generation of the cosmogenic radionuclides that this book is all about. The six following chapters (Chaps. 10–15) in this Part describe how and where cosmogenic radionuclides are produced, how nature deposited them in archives, and how we measure them.