Optically stimulated luminescence dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from perennially frozen loess in western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison with radiocarbon chronologies for the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 346-364

  Demuro, M ^a   Roberts, R G ^a   Froese, D G ^b   Arnold, L J ^a   Brock, F ^c   Ramsey, C Bronk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dawson tephra; Klondike; OSL dating; Radiocarbon; Single grain; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BERINGIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEASONALITY; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; YUKON TERRITORY;

SPERMOPHILUS;

EID: 44649123726     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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