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OSL-Dating: Constraining the Pleistocene environmental history of the Atacama: Extending the age range of luminescence dating (D05)

Subject Area Physical Geography
Term from 2016 to 2020
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 268236062
 
This projects aims to extend the age range of luminescence dating from ~0.2-0.4 Ma towards 1 Ma. The landscape of the Atacama is dominated by clastic deposits, and luminescence dating offers a widely applicable and versatile technique for constraining the timing of environmental changes. Extending the age range will enable the temporal gap between geochronological methods from other sub-projects to be spanned, for example, whereas the upper limit of radiocarbon dating is ~50 ka, the lower limit of cosmogenic burial dating is ~0.5 Ma.
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres
Major Instrumentation TL/DA-20 reader with Violet stimulation
Instrumentation Group 0260 Strahlungsmeßplätze (außer 033, 330-339, 405 und 615-619)
Applicant Institution Universität zu Köln
 
 

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