Reliability of equivalent-dose determination and age-models in the OSL dating of historical and modern palaeoflood sediments

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-24

  Medialdea, A ^a,d   Thomsen, K J ^b   Murray, A S ^c   Benito, G ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flash flood deposits; Minimum age models; Optically stimulated luminescence; Quartz; Single grains; Young sediments

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DEPOSITION; FLASH FLOOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOFLOOD; QUARTZ; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84896814023     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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