OSL chronostratigraphy of a loess-palaeosol sequence in Saxony/Germany using quartz of different grain sizes

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 102-109

  Kreutzer, Sebastian ^a,b   Fuchs, Markus ^a   Meszner, Sascha ^c   Faust, Dominik ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coarse grain; Fine grain; Loess; OSL; Quartz; SAR; Saxony Germany

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GRAIN SIZE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; LOESS; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOSOL; QUARTZ;

GERMANY; SAXONY;

EID: 84863776499     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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