Modelling dose rate to single grains of quartz in well-sorted sand samples: The dispersion arising from the presence of potassium feldspars and implications for single grain OSL dating

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 27, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-65

  Guérin, Guillaume ^a,b   Jain, Mayank ^a   J Thomsen, Kristina ^a   S Murray, Andrew ^c   Mercier, Norbert ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Maison de l'archéologie ^*  (France)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age models; Dose rate distributions; Geant4 simulations; Overdispersion; Single grain OSL

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTASSIUM; QUARTZ;

EID: 84919934288     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2014.12.006     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Aitken M.J. Thermoluminescence Dating 1985, Academic Press, London.
2. Agostinelli S., et al. Geant4-a simulation toolkit. Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 2003, 506:250-303. (Geant4 Collaboration).
3. Allison J., et al. Geant4 developments and applications. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 2006, 53:270-278. (Geant4 Collaboration).
4. Ankjærgaard C., Murray A.S. Total beta and gamma dose rates in trapped charge dating based on beta counting. Radiat. Meas. 2007, 42:352-359.
5. Arnold L.J., Roberts R.G., Galbraith R.F., DeLong S.B. Arevised burial dose estimation procedure for optical dating of young and modern-age sediments. Quat. Geochronol. 2009, 4:306-325.
6. Blott S.J., Pye K. Gradistat: a grain size distribution and statistics package for the analysis of unconsolidated sediments. Earth Surf. Process. Landf. 2001, 26:1237-1248.
7. Bos A.J.J., Wallinga J., Johns C., Abellon R.D., Brouwer J.C., Schaart D.R., Murray A.S. Accurate calibration of a laboratory beta particle dose rate for dating purposes. Radiat. Meas. 2006, 41:1020-1025.
8. Brennan B.J. Variation of the alpha dose rate to grains in heterogeneous sediments. Radiat. Meas. 2006, 41:1026-1031.
9. Brennan B.J., Schwarcz H.P., Rink J. Simulation of the gamma radiation field in lumpy environments. Radiat. Meas. 1997, 27(2):299-305.
10. Buylaert J.-P., Ankjaergaard C., Murray A.S., Nielsen A. Aproposed laboratory intercomparison sample based on a beach-ridge sand from Skagen (Denmark), poster. UK-LED Meeting, Liverpool 2006.
11. Buylaert J.-P., Thiel C., Murray A.S., Vandenberghe D.A.G., Yi S., Lu H. IRSL and post-IR IRSL residual doses recorded in modern dust samples from the Chinese Loess Plateau. Geochronometria 2011, 38:432-440.
12. Bøtter-Jensen L., Bulur E., Duller G.A.T., Murray A.S. Advances in luminescence instrument systems. Radiat. Meas. 2000, 32:523-528.
13. Bøtter-Jensen L., Andersen C.E., Duller G.A.T., Murray A.S. Developments in radiation, stimulation and observation facilities in luminescence measurements. Radiat. Meas. 2003, 37:535-541.
14. Bøtter-Jensen L., Thomsen K.J., Jain M. Review of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) instrumental developments for retrospective dosimetry. Radiat. Meas. 2010, 45:253-257.
15. Chauhan N., Singhvi A. Distribution in SAR palaeodoses due to spatial heterogeniety of natural beta dose. Geochronometria 2011, 38:190-198.
16. Cunningham A.C., DeVries D.J., Schaart D.R. Experimental and computational simulation of beta-dose heterogeneity in sediment. Radiat. Meas. 2012, 47:1060-1067.
17. Donev A., Stillinger F.H., Torquato S. Neighbor list collision-driven molecular dynamics simulation for nonspherical particles. I. Algorithmic details II. Applications to ellipses and ellipsoids. J.Comput. Phys. 2005, 202(2). 737-764 (Part I) and 765-793 (Part II).
18. Duller G.A.T., Bøtter-Jensen L., Murray A.S., Truscott A.J. Single grain laser luminescence (SGLL) measurements using a novel automated reader. Nucl. Instrum. Methods B 1999, 155:506-514.
19. Folk R.L., Ward W.C. Brazos River bar: a study in the significance of grain size parameters. J.Sediment. Petrol. 1957, 27:3-26.
20. Galbraith R.F., Green P.F. Estimating the component ages in a finite mixture. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 1990, 17:196-206.
21. Galbraith R.F., Roberts R.G. Statistical aspects of equivalent dose and error calculation and display in OSL dating: an overview and some recommendations. Quat. Geochronol. 2012, 11:1-27.
22. Galbraith R., Roberts R.G., Laslett G., Yoshida H., Olley J. Optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from Jinmium rock shelter, northern Australia: Part I, experimental design and statistical models. Archaeometry 1999, 41:339-364.
23. Galbraith R.F., Roberts R.G., Yoshida H. Error variation in OSL palaeodose estimates from single aliquots of quartz: a factorial experiment. Radiat. Meas. 2005, 39:289-307.
24. Gliganic L.A., Jacobs Z., Roberts R.G., Domínguez-Rodrigo M., Mabulla A.Z.P. New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains. J. Hum. Evol. 2012, 62:533-547.
25. Guérin Modélisation et simulation des effets dosimétriques dans les sédiments quaternaires: application aux méthodes de datation par luminescence 2011, 3. (PhD thesis), Université Bordeaux.
26. Guérin G., Mercier N., Adamiec G. Dose rate conversion factors: update. Anc. TL 2011, 29(1):5-8.
27. Guérin G., Mercier N. Preliminary insight into dose deposition processes in sedimentary media on a grain scale: Monte Carlo modelling of the effect of water on gamma dose rates. Radiat. Meas. 2012, 47:541-547.
28. Guérin G., Mercier N., Nathan R., Adamiec G., Lefrais Y. On the use of the infinite matrix assumption and associated concepts: a critical review. Radiat. Meas. 2012, 47:778-785.
29. Guérin G., Murray A.S., Jain M., Thomsen K.J., Mercier N. How confident are we in the chronology of the transition between Howieson's Poort and Still Bay?. J.Hum. Evol. 2013, 64:314-317.
30. Huntley D.J., Baril M.R. The K content of the K-feldspar being measured in optical dating or in thermoluminescence dating. Anc. TL 1997, 15:11-13.
31. Huntley D.J., Hancock R.G.V. The Rb contents of the K-feldspar grains being measured in optical dating. Anc. TL 2001, 19:43-46.
32. Huntley D.J., Lamothe M. Ubiquity of anomalous fading in K-feldspar and the measurement and correction for it in optical dating. Can. J. Earth Sci. 2001, 38:1093-1106.
33. Jacobs Z. An OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B-a punctuated presence. J.Hum. Evol. 2010, 59:289-305.
34. Jacobs Z., Roberts R.G., Galbraith R.F., Deacon H.J., Grün R., Mackay A., Mitchell P., Vogelsang R., Wadley L. Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal. Science 2008, 322:733-735.
35. Jacobs Z., Wintle A.G., Roberts R.G., Duller G.A.T. Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits. J.Archaeol. Sci. 2008, 35:1808-1820.
36. Jacobs Z., Meyer M.C., Roberts R.G., Aldeais V., Dibble H., El Hajraoui M.A. Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels. J.Archaeol. Sci. 2011, 38:3631-3643.
37. Jacobs Z., Roberts R.G., Nespoulet R., El Hajraoui M.A., Debénath A. Single grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: implications for Late Pleistocene human-environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa. J.Hum. Evol. 2012, 62:377-394.
38. Jacobs Z., Hayes E.H., Roberts R.G., Galbraith R.F., Henshilwood C.S. An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa. J.Archaeol. Sci. 2013, 40:579-594.
39. Jain M., Thomsen K.J., Bøtter-Jensen L., Murray A.S. Thermal transfer and apparent-dose distributions in poorly bleached mortar samples: results from single grains and small aliquots. Radiat. Meas. 2004, 38:101-109.
40. Lapp T., Jain M., Thomsen K.J., Murray A.S., Buylaert J.P. New luminescence measurement facilities in retrospective dosimetry. Radiat. Meas. 2012, 47:803-808.
41. Lepper K. Development of an Objective Dose Distribution Analysis Method for OSL Dating and Pilot Studies for Planetary Applications 2001, (Ph.D. thesis), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
42. Mayya Y.S., Morthekai P., Murari M.K., Singhvi A.K. Towards quantifying beta microdosimetric effects in single-grain quartz dose distribution. Radiat. Meas. 2006, 41:1032-1039.
43. Murray A.S., Wintle A.G. Luminescence dating of quartz using an improved single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol. Radiat. Meas. 2000, 32:57-73.
44. Murray A.S., Wintle A.G. The single aliquot regenerative dose protocol: potential for improvements in reliability. Radiat. Meas. 2003, 37:377-381.
45. Murray A.S., Thomsen K.J., Masuda N., Buylaert J.P., Jain M. Identifying well-bleached quartz using the different bleaching rates of quartz and feldspar luminescence signals. Radiat. Meas. 2012, 47:688-695.
46. Murray A.S., Buylaert J.-P., Thiel C. A luminescence dating intercomparison based on a Danish Beach-ridge sand. Radiat. Meas 2014.
47. Nathan R.P. Numerical Modelling of the Environmental Dose Rate for Trapped Charge Dating 2011, (Unpublished PhD thesis), University of Oxford.
48. Nathan R.P., Mauz B. On the dose rate estimate of carbonate-rich sediments for trapped charge dating. Radiat. Meas. 2008, 43:14-25.
49. Nathan R.P., Thomas P.J., Jain M., Murray A.S., Rhodes E.J. Environmental dose rate heterogeneity of beta radiation and its implications for luminescence dating: Monte Carlo modelling and experimental validation. Radiat. Meas. 2003, 37:305-313.
50. Nielsen A., Murray A.S., Pejrup M., Elberling B. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of a Holocene beach ridge plain in northern Jutland, Denmark. Quat. Geochronol. 2006, 1(4):305-312.
51. Olley J.M., De Deckker P., Roberts R.G., Fifield L.K., Yoshida H., Hancock G. Optical dating of deep-sea sediments using single grains of quartz: a comparison with radiocarbon. Sediment. Geol. 2004, 169:175-189.
52. 87Rb beta particles. Anc. TL 2002, 20:25-28.
53. Roberts R.G., Galbraith R.F., Yoshida H., Laslett G.M., Olley J.M. Distinguishing dose populations in sediment mixtures: a test of single-grain optical dating procedures using mixtures of laboratory-dosed quartz. Radiat. Meas. 2000, 32:459-465.
54. Salvat F., Fernández-Varea J.M., Sempau J. PENELOPE-2011: a Code System for Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport 2011, OECD NEA Data Bank/NSC DOC(2011)/5, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Issy-les-Moulineaux.
55. Singhvi A.K., Stokes S.C., Chauhan N., Nagar Y.C., Jaiswal M.K. Changes in natural OSL sensitivity during single aliquot regeneration procedure and their implications for equivalent dose determination. Geochronometria 2011, 38:231-241.
56. Stokes S. The timing of OSL sensitivity changes in a natural quartz. Radiat. Meas. 1994, 23:601-605.
57. Stokes S. Optical Dating of Selected Late Quaternary Aeolian Sediments from the South Western United States 1994, (Unpublished D. Phil. thesis), Oxford University.
58. Thiel C., Buylaert J.P., Murray A., Terhorst B., Hofer I., Tsukamoto S., Frechen M. Luminescence dating of the Stratzing loess profile (Austria) - testing the potential of an elevated temperature post-IR IRSL protocol. Quat. Int. 2011, 234:23-31.
59. Thomsen K.J., Murray A.S., Bøtter-Jensen L. Sources of variability in OSL dose measurements using single grains of quartz. Radiat. Meas. 2005, 39:47-61.
60. Thomsen K.J., Murray A.S., Bøtter-Jensen L., Kinahan J. Determination of burial dose in incompletely bleached fluvial samples using single grains of quartz. Radiat. Meas. 2007, 42(3):370-379.
61. Thomsen K.J., Murray A.S., Jain M. The dose dependency of the over-dispersion of quartz OSL single grain dose distributions. Radiat. Meas. 2012, 47:732-739.
62. Tribolo C., Mercier N., Rasse M., Soriano S., Huysecom E. Kobo 1 and L'Abri-aux-Vaches (Mali, West Africa): two cases study for the optical dating of bio-turbated sediments. Quat. Geochronol. 2010, 5:317-323.