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Definition of Cosmogenic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe. "Cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe"
Partainyms: Cosmogeny, Cosmogony, Cosmogony, Cosmology, Cosmology
Derivative terms: Cosmogony, Cosmogony, Cosmology, Cosmology
Definition of Cosmogenic
1. Adjective. produced by cosmic rays ¹
2. Adjective. cosmogenetic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cosmogenic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmogenic
Literary usage of Cosmogenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"200 -15 -10 -5 ot 0 < 5 10 15 0 500 1000 YEAR 1500 2000 FIGURE 10-2 Records of
sunspot number and cosmogenic isotope fluctuations in tree rings and ice ..."
2. Abstracts of the Eighth International Conference on Geochronology by Marvin A. Lanphere, G. Brent Dalrymple, Brent D. Turrin, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1994)
"We have mathematically modelled how bedrock erosion, soil mixing, and sediment
transport affect in-situ cosmogenic isotope accumulation in mobile sediment. ..."
3. Nuclear Energy Today by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2003)
"Terrestrial radiation comes from the earth itself, and is produced by the decay
of primordial and cosmogenic radionuclides embedded in the earth's crust. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"... in the I4th century, thai the Garden of Eden exists somewhere upon the earth
if it could only be found. After describing its cosmogenic position lu- ..."
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