Luminescence dating of Holocene playa sediments of the Egyptian Plateau Western Desert, Egypt

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 10-13, 2003, Pages 1077-1084

  Bubenzer, O ^a   Hilgers, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; CARBON; LUMINESCENCE; SEDIMENTS;

GEOARCHAELOGICAL SITES;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLAYA;

EGYPT; EGYPTIAN PLATEAU; WESTERN DESERT;

EID: 0038521518     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00061-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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