Recuperated-OSL dating of quartz from Aegean (South Greece) raised Pleistocene marine sediments: current results

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-75

  Athanassas, C ^a,b   Zacharias, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean; GIS; Marine terraces; Nannoplankton; Oxygen Isotope Stage; Recuperated OSL; Sensitivity changes; TT OSL

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; DATING METHOD; GIS; MARINE SEDIMENT; NANOPLANKTON; OUTCROP; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 70449722782     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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