Luminescence sensitivities of quartz grains from eolian deposits in northern China and their implications for provenance

Quaternary Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-189

  Lü, Tongyan ^a   Sun, Jimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Eolian deposit; Luminescence sensitivity; Provenance; Quartz

Indexed keywords

EOLIAN DEPOSITS; FOUR-GROUP; NORTHERN CHINA; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ GRAINS; RED CLAY; ROCK TYPES; SOURCE MATERIAL; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

ARID REGIONS; CLAY DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; LANDFORMS; QUARTZ; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; OPTICAL METHOD; PROVENANCE; QUARTZ; QUATERNARY; TERTIARY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

CHINA;

EID: 80051808050     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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