TY - CHAP
T1 - Luminescence dating, uncertainties and age range
AU - Wallinga, Jakob
AU - Cunningham, Alastair C.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Luminescence ages have an uncertainty of at least 4–5 %, mainly due to systematic errors in both dose rate (conversion factors) and equivalent dose (source calibration) estimation. In most cases, the uncertainty will be higher, due to random errors (e.g., spread in equivalent doses) or uncertainty in assumptions (e.g., water content fluctuations, burial history). Dating is possible for a wide age range of a few decades to about half a million years, although uncertainties are usually relatively large toward the extremes of this range.
AB - Luminescence ages have an uncertainty of at least 4–5 %, mainly due to systematic errors in both dose rate (conversion factors) and equivalent dose (source calibration) estimation. In most cases, the uncertainty will be higher, due to random errors (e.g., spread in equivalent doses) or uncertainty in assumptions (e.g., water content fluctuations, burial history). Dating is possible for a wide age range of a few decades to about half a million years, although uncertainties are usually relatively large toward the extremes of this range.
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-6304-3_197
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-6304-3_197
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
AN - SCOPUS:85044586744
SN - 9789400763043
T3 - Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
SP - 440
EP - 445
BT - Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods
A2 - Rink, W.J.
A2 - Thompson, J.W.
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -