Quartz and polymineral luminescence dating of Japanese loess over the last 0.6 Ma: Comparison with an independent chronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 774-789

  Watanuki, Takuya ^a,b,c   Murray, Andrew S ^a   Tsukamoto, Sumiko ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Independent age control; Loess; Luminescence dating; OSL component; Quartz; Tephra

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT AGE CONTROL; JAPAN; POLYMINERAL LUMINESCENCE DATING;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; INFRARED RADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ; RELIABILITY; SEDIMENTS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOCHIGI; WORLD;

EID: 28044465604     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.027     Document Type: Article

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