Age limits on Middle Pleistocene glacial sediments from OSL dating, north Norfolk, UK

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 1363-1377

  Pawley, Steven M ^a   Bailey, Richard M ^b   Rose, James ^a   Moorlock, Brian S P ^a,c   Hamblin, Richard J O ^a,c   Booth, Steven J ^a,c   Lee, Jonathan R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; OPTICAL STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE (OSL); SINGLE ALIQUOT REGENERATIVE-DOSE (SAR);

SEDIMENTS;

AGE; ANGLIAN; CHRONOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATING METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACIES; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; OUTWASH; PLEISTOCENE;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 46549089321     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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