Quartz as a natural luminescence dosimeter

F Preusser, ML Chithambo, T Götte, M Martini… - Earth-Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Luminescence from quartz is commonly used in retrospective dosimetry, in particular for the
dating of archaeological materials and sediments from the Quaternary period. The …

Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits

Z Jacobs, RG Roberts - … News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Paleoanthropologists and archeologists interested in occupation histories, faunal remains,
and objects of material culture have become increasingly reliant on optically stimulated …

Luminescence as a sediment tracer and provenance tool

HJ Gray, M Jain, AO Sawakuchi… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence holds unique potential as a sediment tracer and provenance method. The
tracer application of luminescence has key advantages including ease of measurement …

New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: Optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains

LA Gliganic, Z Jacobs, RG Roberts… - Journal of Human …, 2012 - Elsevier
The archaeological deposits at Mumba rockshelter, northern Tanzania, have been
excavated for more than 70 years, starting with Margit and Ludwig Köhl-Larsen in the 1930s …

Thermal history versus sedimentary history: OSL sensitivity of quartz grains extracted from rocks and sediments

AO Sawakuchi, MW Blair, R Dewitt, FM Faleiros… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
The optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) sensitivity of quartz has a significant influence
on luminescence dating procedures. Furthermore, identifying the natural controls of quartz …

Luminescence of quartz and feldspar fingerprints provenance and correlates with the source area denudation in the Amazon River basin

AO Sawakuchi, M Jain, TD Mineli, L Nogueira… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Amazon region hosts the world's largest watershed spanning from high elevation
Andean terrains to lowland cratonic shield areas in tropical South America. This study …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of quartz LM-OSL curves

JH Choi, GAT Duller, AG Wintle - Ancient TL, 2006 - pure.aber.ac.uk
Measurement of the optically stimulated luminescence signal during linear ramping of the
stimulation power (LM-OSL) is a useful and efficient method for separating constituent OSL …

Paper I–Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of perennially frozen deposits in north‐central Siberia: OSL characteristics of quartz grains and …

LJ Arnold, RG Roberts - Boreas, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Arnold, LJ & Roberts, RG 2011: Paper I–Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of
perennially frozen deposits in north− central Siberia: OSL characteristics of quartz grains …

Variations in quartz OSL components with lithology, weathering and transportation

GY Jeong, JH Choi - Quaternary Geochronology, 2012 - Elsevier
The signal properties of quartz optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) vary from sample to
sample, and even from grain to grain, in terms of, for example, signal intensity or the …

Variations in water level for Lake Turkana in the past 8500 years near Mt. Porr, Kenya and the transition from the African Humid Period to Holocene aridity

SL Forman, DK Wright, C Bloszies - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
A stratigraphic and geomorphic study of relict beaches up to 80 m above current water level
of Lake Turkana reveal four major lake level fluctuations of> 50 m between ca 8.5 and 4.5 ka …