Luminescence chronology of Pleistocene loess deposits from Romania: Testing methods of age correction for anomalous fading in alkali feldspars

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 10-13, 2003, Pages 967-973

  Balescu, S ^a,e   Lamothe, M ^b   Mercier, N ^a   Huot, S ^b   Balteanu, D ^c   Billard, A ^a   Hus, J ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^d ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SILT;

QUATERNARY SCIENCE;

LUMINESCENCE;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CORRECTION; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE;

GIURGIU MALU-ROSU; ROMANIA; TUZLA;

EID: 0038445440     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00056-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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