Luminescence Sensitivity of Rhine Valley Loess: Indicators of Source Variability?
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Regional Setting
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Luminescence Measurements on the RP1 Profile
3.2. Luminescence Measurements on the REM3B Core
3.3. Statistical Analyses to Test Correlations between Luminescence Sensitivity and Other Proxy Data
4. Results
4.1. Equivalent Dose Measurements
4.2. Luminescence Sensitivity within Profile RP1 and in the Zone of Temporal Overlap between REM3B and RP1
4.3. Luminescence Sensitivity down Core REM3B
5. Discussion
5.1. Variability in Quartz and Feldspar Test Dose Sensitivity during OIS 3
5.2. Variability in Rapidly Meaasured IR50 Sensitivity down Core REM3B: Implications for Source Variability?
6. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Fitzsimmons, K.E.; Perić, Z.; Nowatzki, M.; Lindauer, S.; Vinnepand, M.; Prud’homme, C.; Dave, A.K.; Vött, A.; Fischer, P. Luminescence Sensitivity of Rhine Valley Loess: Indicators of Source Variability? Quaternary 2022, 5, 1. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/quat5010001
Fitzsimmons KE, Perić Z, Nowatzki M, Lindauer S, Vinnepand M, Prud’homme C, Dave AK, Vött A, Fischer P. Luminescence Sensitivity of Rhine Valley Loess: Indicators of Source Variability? Quaternary. 2022; 5(1):1. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/quat5010001
Chicago/Turabian StyleFitzsimmons, Kathryn E., Zoran Perić, Maike Nowatzki, Susanne Lindauer, Mathias Vinnepand, Charlotte Prud’homme, Aditi K. Dave, Andreas Vött, and Peter Fischer. 2022. "Luminescence Sensitivity of Rhine Valley Loess: Indicators of Source Variability?" Quaternary 5, no. 1: 1. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/quat5010001