Testing the use of OSL from quartz grains for dating debris flows in Miyun, northeast Beijing, China

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 320-327

  Zhao, Qiuyue ^a   Thomsen, Kristina Jørkov ^b   Murray, Andrew Sean ^c   Wei, Mingjian ^a   Pan, Baolin ^a   Song, Bo ^a   Zhou, Rui ^d   Chen, Shuzhen ^a   Zhao, Xiaohong ^a   Chen, Hongyi ^a  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Debris flow deposits; Quartz; SAR; Single grain dating

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TESTING METHOD;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; MIYUN;

EID: 84947042544     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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