Dating of Late Pleistocene terrace deposits of the River Rhine using Uranium series and luminescence methods: Potential and limitations

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 363-373

  Kock, Stéphane ^a   Kramers, Jan D ^b   Preusser, Frank ^b   Wetzel, Andreas ^c  

^a Universität Bern ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluvial deposits; Meteoric cement; Optical dating; Pleistocene; River Rhine; U series dating

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE; TERRACE; URANIUM; YOUNGER DRYAS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE RIVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 69749101262     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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