Journal
GEOCHRONOMETRIA
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages 432-440Publisher
VERSITA
DOI: 10.2478/s13386-011-0047-0
Keywords
modern dust; IRSL; polymineral fine-grains; post-IR IRSL; loess; China
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- Nordic Centre of Excellence of the Joint Committee of Nordic Natural Science Research Councils
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Using a set of modern/young (0 to about 200 years old) dust samples collected from the Chinese Loess Plateau the bleachability of IRSL measured at 50 degrees C (IR(50)) and post-IR(50) elevated temperature IRSL (measured at 225 degrees C and at 290 degrees C) is investigated by measuring the apparent (residual) doses recorded by these signals. Doses recorded by quartz OSL are used as a reference. Allowing for differences in dose rates it seems that both IRSL and post-IR IRSL signals yield residual doses that are significantly larger than the doses measured in quartz. These residual doses can be largely explained by thermal transfer caused by preheating. Nevertheless, we advise against the use of a low temperature preheat (< 200 degrees C) with IR(50) to date loess samples because, as has been reported before, the signal appears to be thermally unstable. In general, we conclude that it may not be advisable to apply post-IR IRSL dating to Chinese loess samples where residuals of up to similar to 20 Gy are a significant fraction of the total dose. However, these residuals quickly become unimportant when dating older samples, and this is the age range in which post-IR IRSL dating is likely to be most useful.
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