T he Pacific seafloor laid down around 10 million years ago is dramatically enriched in beryllium-10, compared to older and younger layers. The geologists who discovered this spike propose it ...

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million years ago?

According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found an unexpected surge of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10 in ocean floor sediments dating back ...

Cosmic origins: Beryllium-10 is produced in the upper atmosphere and eventually incorporated into ferromanganese crusts in the deep ocean. Around 10 million years ago, the amount deposited in these ...

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...

An international team of scientists has found unexpectedly high levels of the rare radioactive isotope beryllium-10 in samples from the Pacific seabed. And they believe it could have been caused ...

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the Pacific Ocean has found a strange increase in the radioactive isotope ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...

Anything beyond that age requires analyzing isotopes such as beryllium-10, whose 1.4-million-year half-life allows researchers to date samples as far back as 10 million years. The problem ...

In the scientific type, sometimes strange, unexplained phenomena comes to light. The latter was the case for a group of scientists, who found twice as much Beryllium-10 in the Pacific seabed then ...

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