Optical dating of fluvio-deltaic clastic lake-fill sediments - A feasibility study in the Holocene Rhine delta (western Netherlands)

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 602-610

  Wallinga, Jakob ^a   Bos, Ingwer J ^b,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delta; Fluvial; Heterogeneous deposits; Holocene; Lacustrine; OSL dating; Quartz; Rhine

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUARTZ; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

NETHERLANDS; RHINE DELTA;

EID: 77956339784     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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