Revisiting a type locality for Late Glacial aeolian sand deposition in NW Europe: Optical dating of the dune complex at Opgrimbie (NE Belgium)

Geomorphology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 27-35

  Derese, Cilia ^a   Vandenberghe, Dimitri ^a   Paulissen, Etienne ^b   Van den haute, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dune sand stratigraphy; Late Glacial; Optically stimulated luminescence; Quartz

Indexed keywords

ALLEROD; BOLLING; CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATING METHOD; DUNE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE; PALYNOLOGY; QUARTZ; RADIOCARBON DATING; TYPE LOCALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67349113871     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.08.022     Document Type: Article

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