Optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments over the past 200,000 years

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 461-488

  Rhodes, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

geochronology; optical dating; OSL; paleoenvironment; Quaternary; sediment

Indexed keywords

AGE ESTIMATION; DEGREE OF RELIABILITY; EARTH SURFACE PROCESS; LOW TEMPERATURES; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL DATING; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; OSL; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; SINGLE GRAINS; TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; IONIZING RADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

DATING METHOD; DEPOSITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FELDSPAR; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUMINESCENCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL METHOD; QUARTZ; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955520501     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040610-133425     Document Type: Article

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