What is OSL dating

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What is OSL dating?
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What is OSL dating?
Dates burial of mineral grains (deposits) by
estimating its dosing by ambient radiation via
the grains luminescence response
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What is OSL dating?
e-
K
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What is OSL dating?
e-
equivalent dose (Gy)
age (ka)
dose rate (Gy/ka)
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What good is OSL?

• Seismic and other geologic hazards
• 2) Climate change, landscape responses to
• 3) Archaeology

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Trench D
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Sampling for OSL
19,460 /- 1,270
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Bill Lund, UGS