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Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-177-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-177-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 4, issue 1
Research article
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31 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 31 Mar 2022

How many grains are needed for quantifying catchment erosion from tracer thermochronology?

Andrea Madella, Christoph Glotzbach, and Todd A. Ehlers

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Cooling ages date the time at which minerals cross a certain isotherm on the way up to Earth's surface. Such ages can be measured from bedrock material and river sand. If spatial variations in bedrock ages are known in a river catchment, the spatial distribution of erosion can be inferred from the distribution of the ages measured from the river sand grains. Here we develop a new tool to help such analyses, with particular emphasis on quantifying uncertainties due to sample size.
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