Experimental and computational simulation of beta-dose heterogeneity in sediment

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 47, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1060-1067

  Cunningham, Alastair C ^a   Devries, Daniel J ^a   Schaart, Dennis R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beta dose; Dating; Heterogeneity; Luminescence; Monte Carlo; OSL; Overdispersion; Partial bleaching; Scatter; Single grain

Indexed keywords

BETA-DOSE; DATING; HETEROGENEITY; MONTE CARLO; OSL; OVERDISPERSION; SCATTER; SINGLE GRAINS;

BLEACHING; CLEANING; EXPERIMENTS; LUMINESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SODIUM;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84870295865     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2012.08.009     Document Type: Article

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