TY - JOUR
T1 - Single-grain and multi-grain OSL dating of river terrace sediments in the Tabernas Basin, SE Spain
AU - Geach, M.R.
AU - Thomsen, Kristina Jørkov
AU - Buylaert, Jan-Pieter
AU - Murray, Andrew
AU - Mather, A.E.
AU - Telfer, M.W.
AU - Stokes, M.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - River terraces represent important records of landscape response to e.g. base-level change and tectonicmovement. Both these driving forces are important in the southern Iberian Peninsula. In this study,Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating was used to date two principal river terraces in theTabernas Basin, SE Spain. A total of 23 samples was collected from the fluvial terraces for dating usingquartz OSL. Sixteen of the samples could not be dated because of low saturation levels (e.g. typical2xD0 < 50 Gy). The remaining seven samples (5 fossil and 2 modern analogues) were investigated usingboth multi-grain and single-grain analysis. Single grain results show that: (i) measurements from multigrainaliquots overestimate ages by up to ~ 4 ka for modern analogues and young samples (<5 ka),presumably because (ii) the presence of many saturated grains has biased the multi-grain results to olderages. Despite the unfavourable luminescence characteristics we are able to present the first numerical agesfor two terrace aggradation stages in the Tabernas Basin, one at ~16 ka and the other within the last 2 ka.© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - River terraces represent important records of landscape response to e.g. base-level change and tectonicmovement. Both these driving forces are important in the southern Iberian Peninsula. In this study,Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating was used to date two principal river terraces in theTabernas Basin, SE Spain. A total of 23 samples was collected from the fluvial terraces for dating usingquartz OSL. Sixteen of the samples could not be dated because of low saturation levels (e.g. typical2xD0 < 50 Gy). The remaining seven samples (5 fossil and 2 modern analogues) were investigated usingboth multi-grain and single-grain analysis. Single grain results show that: (i) measurements from multigrainaliquots overestimate ages by up to ~ 4 ka for modern analogues and young samples (<5 ka),presumably because (ii) the presence of many saturated grains has biased the multi-grain results to olderages. Despite the unfavourable luminescence characteristics we are able to present the first numerical agesfor two terrace aggradation stages in the Tabernas Basin, one at ~16 ka and the other within the last 2 ka.© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW - Fluvial
KW - Tectonics
KW - Climate
KW - OSL
U2 - 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.05.021
DO - 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.05.021
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1871-1014
VL - 30
SP - 213
EP - 218
JO - Quaternary Geochronology
JF - Quaternary Geochronology
IS - Part B
ER -