Estimating the equivalent dose of late Pleistocene fine silt quartz from the Lower Mississippi Valley using a standardized OSL growth curve

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 649-654

  Shen, Zhixiong ^a   Mauz, Barbara ^b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lower Mississippi Valley; OSL dating; Standardized growth curve

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; QUARTZ; SILT;

COMMON PROPERTY; EQUIVALENT DOSE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MISSISSIPPI; OPTICAL DATING; OSL DATING; STANDARDIZED GROWTH CURVES;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 79961028117     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2011.05.060     Document Type: Article

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