Talk:Environmental radioactivity
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--Alex 13:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merger of cosmogenic isotope article
Seeing as this environmental radioactivity article is a broad, overview-type article, I don't think it was appropriate to merge the entirety of cosmogenic isotope into this article. Particularly when half the CI article is focused on the geochronologic applications of the nuclides. I don't see the uranium-lead dating article merged into the long lived actinides section. I agree that Be-10, Be-7, Cl-36, etc should be included in "the subject of radioactive materials in man and his environment", but not at the expense of a thorough discussion of them in their own right, in their own article. If I was going to look in Wikipedia for an explanation of what Be-10 is, how it is produced, and why we care about it, I would not expect to end up at environmental radioactivity as the end-all be-all source for that information.
Perhaps a title for the CI article more specific to their applications would be an improvement: Cosmogenic nucide dating, to follow in the style of the other radiometric dating techniques. And a See also link here. For reference, see pre-merger version of cosmogenic isotope. -- BlueCanoe 01:11, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
