Luminescence dating of sediments - The detection of high equivalent dose grains using an imaging photon detector

Archaeometry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 153-168

  McFee, C J ^a,b   Tite, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DRA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular microscopy; Feldspars; Imaging photon detector; Optically stimulated luminescence; Quartz; Scanning electron microscopy; Thermoluminescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032342594     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1998.tb00830.x     Document Type: Article

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