ESR dose response of the al center measured in quartz samples from the yellow river (China): Implications for the dating of upper Pleistocene sediment

Geochronometria

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 341-347

  Voinchet, Pierre ^a   Yin, Gongming ^b   Falguères, Christophe ^a   Liu, Chunru ^b   Han, Fei ^b   Sun, Xuefeng ^c   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Equivalent dose determination; ESR dating method; Exponen tial plus linear function; Quartz; Upper Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896743095     PISSN: 17338387     EISSN: 18971695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s13386-013-0131-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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