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Further investigations into the accuracy of infrared radiofluorescence (IR-RF) and its inter-comparison with infrared photoluminescence (IRPL) dating
Mariana Sontag-González
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Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35390 Giessen, Germany
Madhav K. Murari
Inter University Accelerator Centre, 110067, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Mayank Jain
Luminescence Physics and Technologies, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus, Roskilde, Denmark
Marine Frouin
Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, 255 Earth and Space Sciences Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100, USA
Markus Fuchs
Department of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35390 Giessen, Germany
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Barbara Mauz, Loïc Martin, Michael Discher, Chantal Tribolo, Sebastian Kreutzer, Chiara Bahl, Andreas Lang, and Nobert Mercier
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Dirk Mittelstraß and Sebastian Kreutzer
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Guillaume Guérin, Christelle Lahaye, Maryam Heydari, Martin Autzen, Jan-Pieter Buylaert, Pierre Guibert, Mayank Jain, Sebastian Kreutzer, Brice Lebrun, Andrew S. Murray, Kristina J. Thomsen, Petra Urbanova, and Anne Philippe
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Daniela Mueller, Frank Preusser, Marius W. Buechi, Lukas Gegg, and Gaudenz Deplazes
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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
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Short summary
We tested the reliability of infrared radiofluorescence (IR-RF) dating of K-feldspar on samples of known age. We compare several measurement protocols and analysis variants and determine the most appropriate version. Additionally, we compare these results with those obtained using infrared photoluminescence (IRPL), an alternative dating method for K-feldspar, for the same samples. Our results confirm the dating potential of IR-RF and highlight similarities and differences to other methods.
We tested the reliability of infrared radiofluorescence (IR-RF) dating of K-feldspar on samples...
