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19 Jan 2024
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| 19 Jan 2024
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Insight into the dynamics of a long-runout mass movement using single-grain feldspar luminescence in the Pokhara Valley, Nepal
Anna-Maartje de Boer
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Soil Geography and Landscape group & Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Wolfgang Schwanghart
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Jürgen Mey
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Basanta Raj Adhikari
Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Lalitpur, Nepal
Tony Reimann
Soil Geography and Landscape group & Netherlands Centre for Luminescence Dating, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Luminescence properties of samples from the Rinikerfeld, northern Switzerland, are assessed. Reader-specific low preheat temperatures are invesigated to ensure suitable measurement conditions. While quartz is found to be dominated by stable fast components, signal loss is observed for feldspar and polymineral. In general, the ages of the fading corrected feldspar and the fine-grained polymineral fractions are in agreement with coarse-grained quartz, and ages indicate sedimentation during MIS6.
Galina Faershtein, Naomi Porat, and Ari Matmon
Geochronology, 2, 101–118, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-101-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-101-2020, 2020
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Optically stimulated luminescence dates the last exposure of quartz and feldspar minerals to sunlight. We investigated its sub-methods (TT-OSL, VSL, and pIRIR) to date middle and early Pleistocene sediments. Inspection of natural signals of samples can reveal saturated samples that produce only minimum ages. Using these sub-methods, minimum ages of up to the early Pleistocene can be obtained for eastern Mediterranean aeolian sediments of Nilotic origin.
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This study tested the application of single-grain feldspar luminescence for dating and reconstructing sediment dynamics of an extreme mass movement event in the Himalayan mountain range. Our analysis revealed that feldspar signals can be used to estimate the age range of the deposits if the youngest subpopulation from a sample is retrieved. The absence of clear spatial relationships with our bleaching proxies suggests that sediments were transported under extremely limited light exposure.
This study tested the application of single-grain feldspar luminescence for dating and...
