A solution to anomalous fading and age shortfalls in optical dating of feldspar minerals

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 319-323

  Lamothe, M ^a   Auclair, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feldspar group; Geochronology; Luminescence; Sediments

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0032796394     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00180-6     Document Type: Article

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