Luminescence dating of deltaic deposits from eastern Crete, Greece: Geoarchaeological implications

Geomorphology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 46-53

  Zacharias, Nikolaos ^a   Bassiakos, Yannis ^a   Hayden, Barbara ^b   Theodorakopoulou, Katie ^a,c   Michael, Christodoulos T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crete; Holocene; Luminescence dating; OSL; PIPS a counting; XRF analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BOREHOLE LOGGING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIELD SURVEY; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; NEOLITHIC; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUARTZ; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349240822     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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