OSL dating of a Pleistocene maar: Birket Ram, the Golan heights

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 201, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 397-403

  Shaanan, Uri ^a   Porat, Naomi ^b   Navon, Oded ^a   Weinberger, Ram ^b   Calvert, Andrew ^c   Weinstein, Yishai ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar; Geochronology; Golan; Maar; OSL dating

Indexed keywords

40AR/39AR; AGE CONSTRAINTS; AGE DETERMINATION; BASALTIC FLOWS; GOLAN; GOLAN HEIGHTS; HOST ROCKS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; JUVENILE MAGMA; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; MAAR; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; OSL DATING; PHREATOMAGMATIC ERUPTION; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ GRAINS; RADIOCARBON AGE; TIME FRAME; TWO LAYERS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ;

DEPOSITS;

ARABIAN PLATE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; BASANITE; DATING METHOD; EJECTA; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAVA; LITHIC FRAGMENT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MAAR; MAGMA; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; TUFF; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

GOLAN HEIGHTS; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES;

EID: 79953045181     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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