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 …

Luminescence dating of the Stratzing loess profile (Austria)–Testing the potential of an elevated temperature post-IR IRSL protocol

C Thiel, JP Buylaert, A Murray, B Terhorst, I Hofer… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Feldspar infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) signals saturate at∼ 2000 Gy, ie∼ 500–
700 ka (assuming a dose rate of 3–4 Gy/ka, typical for loess) and it is therefore theoretically …

Luminescence dating at Border Cave: attempts, questions, and new results

C Tribolo, N Mercier, C Dumottay, N Cantin… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Border Cave hosts a rare Middle and Early Later Stone Age sequence of deposits that
extends as far back as ca. 250 thousand years (ka). The site's chronology has been built …

Luminescence dating: basics, methods and applications

F Preusser, D Degering, M Fuchs… - E&G Quaternary …, 2008 - egqsj.copernicus.org
Luminescence dating is a tool frequently used for age determination of Quaternary materials
such as archaeological artefacts, volcanic deposits and a variety of sediments from different …

Chronology and the upper dating limit for loess samples from Luochuan section in the Chinese Loess Plateau using quartz OSL SAR protocol

ZP Lai - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
Luminescence dating of loess older than 100ka has long been a challenge. It has been
recently reported that, using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) of fine-grained quartz …

Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and …

SA Brandt, EC Fisher, EA Hildebrand… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Between 70 and 50 ka BP, anatomically modern humans dispersed across and out of Africa
to eventually populate all inhabitable continents. Knowledge of paleoenvironments and …

Reconstruction of Last Glacial to early Holocene monsoon variability from relict lake sediments of the Higher Central Himalaya, Uttrakhand, India

N Juyal, RK Pant, N Basavaiah, R Bhushan… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2009 - Elsevier
Proglacial lake sediments at Goting in the Higher Central Himalaya were analyzed to
reconstruct the summer monsoon variability during the Last Glacial to early Holocene …

Timing of Holocene lake highstands around Dawa Co in inner Tibetan Plateau: Comparison of quartz and feldspar luminescence dating with radiocarbon age

Y Feng, Y Hou, J Zhang, N Yang, Y Cai, F Yang… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lakes over the inner Tibetan Plateau (TP) are very sensitive to the regional environmental
transformations and climate changes. Well-preserved lake sediments around these lakes …

Trapped-charge thermochronometry and thermometry: A status review

GE King, B Guralnik, PG Valla, F Herman - Chemical Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Trapped-charge dating methods including luminescence and electron spin resonance
dating have high potential as low temperature (< 100° C) thermochronometers. Despite an …

On the applicability of post-IR IRSL dating to Japanese loess

C Thiel, JP Buylaert, AS Murray, S Tsukamoto - Geochronometria, 2011 - Springer
Recent work on infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) dating has focussed on finding and
testing signals which show less or negligible fading. IRSL signals measured at elevated …