Optical Dating of Sediments: Initial Quartz Results From Oxford

Smith, B.W.; Rhodes, E. J.; Stokes, Stephen; Spooner, Nigel A.; Aitken, M. J.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1990.tb01078.x

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“…Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) together with the use of quartz, on the other hand, has been more successful. Smith et al (1990) and Stokes (1991) reported good agreement with independent age control for the coversand deposits in the Dinkel Valley (Lutterzand). Recently, optical dating techniques were also applied successfully to the late Weichselian aeolian sediments exposed in the type locality in the Dinkel valley in the eastern Netherlands (Bateman and Van Huissteden, 1999).…”

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Exploring the method of optical dating and comparison of optical and ¹⁴C ages of Late Weichselian coversands in the southern Netherlands

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Hossain

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J Quaternary Science

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A study was made of the applicability of three different techniques for equivalent dose (D e ) determination in the optical dating of quartz: the single-aliquot regenerative-dose technique (SAR), the single-aliquot additive-dose technique (SAAD) and the multiple-aliquot additive-dose technique (MAAD). For this purpose, quartz grains were extracted from a sequence of Upper Pleniglacial to Late-glacial coversands exposed at the locality of Ossendrecht in the southwestern Netherlands, a site for which both radiocarbon and earlier luminescence dates are available, providing independent age control.Upon testing the different assumptions underlying each of the three OSL techniques investigated, the SAR protocol was found to be the technique of choice. The optical ages obtained with this protocol were in good agreement with the chronostratigraphical position of the sediments investigated and with the available chronostratigraphical information on the same and equivalent deposits. This confirms the suitability of the SAR technique for dating coversands. Furthermore, a small laboratory intercomparison of SAR-based D e determinations yielded results that were in fair overall agreement.

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“…using potassium feldspar Dijkmans and Wintle (1991). using potassium feldspar Smith et al (1990). using quartz.…”

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Exploring the method of optical dating and comparison of optical and ¹⁴C ages of Late Weichselian coversands in the southern Netherlands

Vandenberghe

Kasse

Hossain

et al. 2004

J Quaternary Science

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“…The first optical dating results were obtained using argon-ion lasers emitting at 514 nm (e.g. Huntley et al, 1985;Smith et al, 1990;Stokes and Gaylord, 1993), but such systems were expensive, technically demanding and difficult to interface into automated luminescence systems. A system based on filtering the blue-green light from a white halogen bulb was developed by Bøtter-Jensen and Duller (1992) and has been used in a number of applications (e.g.…”

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Luminescence dating of quaternary sediments: recent advances

Duller

2004

J Quaternary Science

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Luminescence dating is unique amongst geochronological methods in dating the deposition of sediments based upon the properties of the constituent minerals. For Quaternary sediments the event being dated is the last exposure of the grains to daylight, and an implicit assumption is that this exposure was sufficient to remove any pre-existing signal. Until recently it has been difficult to test this assumption, other than by dating samples from a given depositional context with an age that is known from independent methods. There have been a series of technological and methodological developments in the past 5-10 yr that make it possible to undertake many replicate measurements of the luminescence from a single sample and hence to explicitly test whether for a specific sample all the grains had their luminescence signal reset at deposition. This allows the reliability of the luminescence age to be assessed. Where all the grains in a sample were not exposed to sufficient daylight to reset their luminescence signal, the apparent age will be an average value of the luminescence from all the grains measured at one time. Where many grains are measured simultaneously, this will overestimate the depositional age. The distribution of apparent age can be made clear by reducing the number of grains being measured in a given experiment, ultimately to the point of measuring individual sand-sized mineral grains.

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“…Luminescence has been applied to the Lutterzand site in a number of studies (Smith et al, 1990;Dijkmans and Wintle, 1991;Stokes, 1991;Dijkmans et al, 1992). All have failed, either through methodological problems or lack of samples, to establish a good chronostratigraphy for this site.…”

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The timing of last‐glacial periglacial and aeolian events, Twente, eastern Netherlands

Bateman

Huissteden

1999

J. Quaternary Sci.

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Optical Dating of Sediments: Initial Quartz Results From Oxford

Cited by 95 publications

References 15 publications

Exploring the method of optical dating and comparison of optical and ¹⁴C ages of Late Weichselian coversands in the southern Netherlands

Exploring the method of optical dating and comparison of optical and ¹⁴C ages of Late Weichselian coversands in the southern Netherlands

Luminescence dating of quaternary sediments: recent advances

The timing of last‐glacial periglacial and aeolian events, Twente, eastern Netherlands

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Optical Dating of Sediments: Initial Quartz Results From Oxford

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Exploring the method of optical dating and comparison of optical and 14C ages of Late Weichselian coversands in the southern Netherlands

Exploring the method of optical dating and comparison of optical and 14C ages of Late Weichselian coversands in the southern Netherlands

Luminescence dating of quaternary sediments: recent advances

The timing of last‐glacial periglacial and aeolian events, Twente, eastern Netherlands

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Exploring the method of optical dating and comparison of optical and ¹⁴C ages of Late Weichselian coversands in the southern Netherlands

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