Establishing the Late Pleistocene-Holocene sedimentation boundary in the southern North Sea using OSL dating of shallow continental shelf sediments

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-54

  Alappat, L ^a   Vink, A ^b   Tsukamoto, S ^a   Frechen, M ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Holocene; North Sea; Optically stimulated luminescence; Quaternary; Weichselian deglaciation

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEGLACIATION; DEPOSITION; LITHOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; QUARTZ; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF SEDIMENT; WEICHSELIAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DOGGER BANK; NORTH SEA;

EID: 77952275399     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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