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Short communication/technical note
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02 Jul 2020
Short communication/technical note |
| 02 Jul 2020
| 02 Jul 2020
Technical note: A prototype transparent-middle-layer data management and analysis infrastructure for cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating
Greg Balco
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA
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Short summary
Geologic dating methods generally do not directly measure ages. Instead, interpreting a geochemical measurement as an age requires a middle layer of calculations and supporting data, and the fact that this layer continually improves is an obstacle to synoptic analysis of geochronological data. This paper describes a prototype data management and analysis system that addresses this obstacle by making the middle-layer calculations transparent and dynamic to the user.
Geologic dating methods generally do not directly measure ages. Instead, interpreting a...
