T81 Alluvial Records: Numerical Dating and Archives of Climatic, Environmental, and Neotectonic Change

Monday, 19 October 2009
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
B114/115

A CONSTRAINED MONTE CARLO APPROACH TO MODELING PROFILES OF COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES

Paper number: T81-14
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM

Authors

Abstract

We present and demonstrate a user-friendly and versatile Monte Carlo simulator for modeling profiles of terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides. Our program permits the incorporation of site-specific geologic knowledge to calculate most probable values for exposure age, erosion or denudation rate, and inherited nuclide concentration and provides a rigorous treatment of uncertainties for these parameters. The simulator will soon be available for download and a web interface is currently being written for full functionality over the internet.