Towards single grain ESR dating of sedimentary quartz: First results

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 10-13, 2003, Pages 1329-1334

  Beerten, Koen ^a   Pierreux, Dieter ^a   Stesmans, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; IRRADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROMETERS;

SIGNAL INTENSITY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BLEACHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATING METHOD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING;

EID: 0037507372     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00060-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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