Artificial optical bleaching of the Aluminium center in quartz implications to ESR dating of sediments

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 10-13, 2003, Pages 1335-1338

  Voinchet, P ^a   Falgueres C ^a   Laurent, M ^b   Toyoda, S ^c   Bahain, J J ^a   Dolo, J M ^d  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux   (France)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d LABORATOIRE NATIONAL HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

Author keywords

Aluminium center; ESR method; Optical bleaching; Sedimentary quartz

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CRYSTAL LATTICES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

ARTIFICIAL OPTICAL BLEACHING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BLEACHING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATING METHOD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LATTICE DYNAMICS; QUARTZ;

EID: 0037844972     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00062-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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