Reliability study on ESR dating of the aluminum center in quartz

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 1045-1049

  Lin, Min ^a,b   Yin, Gongming ^a   Ding, Yanqiu ^b   Cui, Ying ^b   Chen, Kesheng ^b   Wu, Changping ^b   Xu, Lijun ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CHINA INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC ENERGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum center; Electron spin resonance (ESR); Quartz; Saturation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CENTER; ARCHEOLOGICAL MATERIALS; PEROXY CENTERS;

ALUMINUM; DOSIMETERS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUARTZ; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 33750009459     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2006.05.019     Document Type: Article

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