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Table 2 Input parameters for the Monte Carlo simulator in Matlab (Hidy et al. 2010)

From: The first major incision of the Swiss Deckenschotter landscape

Parameter

Value

Latitude (°)

47.554

Longitude (°)

8.187

Altitude (m)

507

Strike (°)

0

Dip (°)

0

Shielding correction factor

1

Cover correction factor

1

Uncertainty of 10Be half-life (%)

1

Local spallogenic production rate (at/g/a)

5.88

Error in local spallogenic production rate (at/g/a)

±0.19

Depth of muon fit (m)

10

Error in total production rate (%)

5

Density (g/cm)

1.8–2.4

χ2 value

8

Number of profiles

100,000

Age (a)

50,000–150,000

Erosion rate (cm/ka)

10–22

Total erosion threshold (cm)

12,500–20,000

Inheritance (at/g)

3,000–10,000

Attenuation length (g/cm2)

160 ± 5

  1. A half-live of 1.387 ± 0.012 Ma for 10Be (Korschinek et al. 2010; Chmeleff et al. 2010) is considered for the calculations. Local spallogenic production rate is calculated with the CRONUS-Earth exposure age calculator (http://hess.ess.washington.edu/math/; v. 2.2; Balco et al. 2008 and update from v. 2.1 to v. 2.2 published by Balco in October 2009) and constant production rate (Lal 1991; Stone 2000) scaling model using the NENA (Balco et al. 2009) production rate calibration dataset