Locations of boreholes and other sample sites
Surface
Be-10 production
Site/borehole name Short name Longitude (DD) Latitude (DD) Elevation (m) rate (atoms/g/yr)1 Drilled by Reference (if any)2
Boreholes
UMRB-1 UMRB-1 -96.4125 44.8970 358 6.94 MN Geol. Survey Patterson (1999)
UMRB-2 UMRB-2 -96.3467 45.3823 335 6.83 MN Geol. Survey Patterson (1999)
UMRB-3 UMRB-3 -95.7066 45.3012 334 6.82 MN Geol. Survey Patterson (1999)
SWRA-3 SWRA-3 -96.3888 44.0821 529 7.97 MN Geol. Survey Setterholm (1999)
Coddington, SD SD-CO -97.1847 45.0186 547 8.18 S. D. Geol. Survey Lineburg (1993)
Brookings, SD SD-BR -96.7175 44.3478 507 7.84 S. D. Geol. Survey -
Hartford, SD SD-HA -96.9181 43.6540 489 7.67 S. D. Geol. Survey Flint (1955)
Turkey Ridge, SD SD-TR2 -97.4386 43.2997 475 7.55 S. D. Geol. Survey -
Heeren, SD SD-HE -96.7069 42.8372 418 7.15 S. D. Geol. Survey -
4-A-75 4-A-75 -94.1144 40.6819 347 6.58 State of NB/NSF Boellstorff (1978a)
5-A-75 5-A-75 -94.2000 40.9983 354 6.64 State of NB/NSF Boellstorff (1978a)
1-A-76 1-A-76 -97.0992 41.2225 494 7.49 State of NB/NSF Boellstorff (1978a)
10-A-76 10-A-76 -96.9181 43.6540 489 7.67 State of NB/NSF Boellstorff (1978a)
17-A-76 17-A-76 -94.7936 41.2303 396 6.90 State of NB/NSF Boellstorff (1978a)
3-B-99 3-B-99 -96.2129 41.4908 398 6.93 State of NB Mason (2001)
Surface samples
Platte river, Nebraska 02-TILL-005-PLA -96.5176 41.4092 365 6.73 - -
Soil pit, Grange, MN 02-TILL-006-GRA -96.2852 44.0516 558 8.16 - -
Soil pit, Grange, MN 02-TILL-007-PIT -96.3380 44.0980 527 7.96 - -
Outcrop, Salisbury, MN MN-SAL -93.8749 44.5575 277 6.43 - -
Vermilion River, SD 02-TILL-008-VERM -96.9509 42.8033 361 6.81 - -
Minnesota River, MN MNR-01 -95.9019 44.5297 218 6.10 - -
Minnesota River, MN MNR-02 -95.3403 44.6950 261 6.35 - -
Yellow Medicine River, MN YMR-01 -95.4294 44.7389 264 6.37 - -
Glacial River Warren, MN RWT-01 -95.2828 44.6750 306 6.61 - -
Kraft ash site, Iowa KRA -95.9925 41.8616 332 6.57 - Bettis (1990)
1 Calculated according to Stone (2000). In most of the analysis of data from these boreholes, we assumed that the Al-26 production rate is 6.1 times that for Be-10.
2 See the bibliography in Greg's dissertation (1.5 mb PDF).