DRAC: Dose Rate and Age Calculator for trapped charge dating

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 28, Issue , 2015, Pages 54-61

  Durcan, Julie A ^a   King, Georgina E ^b,c   Duller, Geoffrey A T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Calculator; Dose rate; DRAC; Electron spin resonance dating; Luminescence dating; Open access; Software

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84927126772     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.03.012     Document Type: Article

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