α-efficiency of corals and its importance for ESR-dating

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 747-750

  Malmberg, R ^a   Radtke, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; EFFICIENCY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRRADIATION; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALPHA-EFFICIENCY; CORALS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 0342572464     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(00)00079-2     Document Type: Article

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