Universität zu Köln

Klasen, Nicole, Fischer, Peter, Lehmkuhl, Frank ORCID: 0000-0002-6876-7377 and Hilgers, Alexandra (2015). LUMINESCENCE DATING OF LOESS DEPOSITS FROM THE REMAGEN-SCHWALBENBERG SITE, WESTERN GERMANY. Geochronometria, 42 (1). S. 67 - 78. WARSAW: SCIENDO. ISSN 1897-1695

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

This study describes the luminescence characteristics of quartz of Upper Pleistocene loess of the Middle Rhine area. The loess/palaeosol sequence of the Schwalbenberg near Remagen comprises a multitude of interstadial soils and soil sediments that have been dedicated to the Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3). These weak calcaric cambisols and their derivates are underlain by loess and soil sediments of MIS 4 to MIS 5 and covered by loess sediments and intercalated gelic gleysols of MIS 2. We applied luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar of drill core samples and observed an age discrepancy within both data sets. The quartz ages were clearly younger than the feldspar ages, because of thermally unstable signal components of the quartz luminescence signal. Therefore, we regarded the quartz samples of the lower parts of the drill core as unsuitable for luminescence dating. This underestimation did not affect the quartz samples of the upper part of the drill core which was indicated by age control that was provided by the Eltville tephra layer. Geochemical analysis based on X-ray fluorescence showed that the sediments in the upper part and the lower part of the drill core have different geogenic finger prints most likely due to changing source areas of dust and sediment allocation. We assumed that these different facies types were the reason for the luminescence behavior of the quartz samples.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Klasen, Nicole UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fischer, Peter UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lehmkuhl, Frank UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6876-7377 UNSPECIFIED Hilgers, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-416484
DOI:	10.1515/geochr-2015-0008
Journal or Publication Title:	Geochronometria
Volume:	42
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 67 - 78
Date:	2015
Publisher:	SCIENDO
Place of Publication:	WARSAW
ISSN:	1897-1695
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; INTERGLACIAL-GLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATIC SIGNIFICANCE; PALEOSOL SEQUENCES; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; CHINESE LOESS; RHINE VALLEY; QUARTZ; OSL; SINGLE Multiple languages Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/41648