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Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

2011

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Luminescence Dating Of K-Feldspar From Sediments: A Protocol Without Anomalous Fading Correction, Bo Li, Sheng-Hua Li Jan 2011

Luminescence Dating Of K-Feldspar From Sediments: A Protocol Without Anomalous Fading Correction, Bo Li, Sheng-Hua Li

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

A protocol for optical dating of potassium-rich feldspar (K-feldspar) is proposed. It utilizes the infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) signal measured by progressively increasing the stimulation temperature from 50 to 250 °C in step of 50 °C, so-called multi-elevated-temperature post-IR IRSL (MET-pIRIR) measurements. Negligible anomalous fading was observed for the MET-pIRIR signals obtained at 200 and 250 °C. This was supported by equivalent dose (De) measurements using the IRSL and MET-pIRIR signals. The De values increase progressively from 50 °C to 200 °C, but similar De values were obtained for the MET-pIRIR signal at 200 and 250 °C. Measurement of modern …


Anomalous Fading: A Reply To The Comment By Huntley On "Isochron Measurements Of Naturally Irradiated K-Feldspar Grains", Bo Li, Sheng-Hua Li, Ann G. Wintle, Hui Zhao Jan 2011

Anomalous Fading: A Reply To The Comment By Huntley On "Isochron Measurements Of Naturally Irradiated K-Feldspar Grains", Bo Li, Sheng-Hua Li, Ann G. Wintle, Hui Zhao

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A

We are pleased that Huntley (this issue) has put forward another explanation for the data that we obtained when we measured the equivalent doses (De) of potassium (K) feldspar grains of different diameters using their infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) signals (Li et al., 2007). We also measured the fading rates for the IRSL signals from grains of different size and concluded that the fading rates were independent of grain size. Huntley is concerned that the fading rates (g-values) that we obtained had relatively large errors and that these could have masked any minor differences in the g-values; a small systematic …