Quartz OSL: Effects of thermal treatment and their relevance to laboratory dating procedures

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 387-400

  Wintle, A G ^a   Murray, A S ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRAPS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ; THERMAL EFFECTS; DOSIMETRY; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SEDIMENTS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

LABORATORY DATING PROCEDURES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE (OSL);

LUMINESCENCE OF SOLIDS;

EIREV; LINEAR MODULATION; OPTICAL DATING; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE (OSL); TIME-RESOLVED LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 0342584238     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(00)00057-3     Document Type: Article

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