Re-evaluating luminescence burial doses and bleaching of fluvial deposits using Bayesian computational statistics

Earth Surface Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 55-65

  Cunningham, A C ^a,b   Wallinga, J ^c   Hobo, N ^c,d   Versendaal, A J ^c   Makaske, B ^c   Middelkoop, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); DEPOSITION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LUMINESCENCE; OVERBANK SEDIMENT; REWORKING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84928730045     PISSN: 21966311     EISSN: 2196632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esurf-3-55-2015     Document Type: Article

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