Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-nmvwc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-29T23:32:07.630Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Thermoluminescence Dating of Coarse-Grain Quartz from the Malan Loess at Zhaitang Section, China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lu Yanchou ,
A. J. Mortlock ,
D. M. Price  and
M. L. Readhead
Lu Yanchou
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, State Seismological Bureau, Beijing, P.O. Box 534, People's Republic of China
A. J. Mortlock
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
D. M. Price
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
M. L. Readhead
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Thermoluminescence (TL) ages were obtained for five loess samples taken from the Zhaitang section near Beijing, China, using the coarse-grain quartz technique. The paleodose values have been determined by the method of total sample bleaching and regeneration of the TL growth curve. The method appears to be suitable for the age determination of loess samples up to about 150,000 yr where the annual dose-rate values are of the order 3–4 mGy/yr. This limit is a function of the total accumulated dose. The ages are in good agreement with those obtained by a fine-grain TL technique and are consistent with geological and geomagnetostratigraphic evidence.

Type
Articles
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , November 1987 , pp. 356 - 363
Copyright
University of Washington

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Aitken, M.J. Thermoluminescence Dating 1985 Academic Press New York/London 221 226 Google Scholar
Andersson, J.G. Topographical and archaeological study in Far East. The Museum of Far East Antiquitice Bulletin 11 1939 7 22 Google Scholar
Zhisheng, An Yanchou, Lu A climatostrati-graphic subdivision of Late Pleistocene strata named by Malan formation in North China. Kexue Tongbao 29 1984 1239 1241 Google Scholar
Bell, W.T. The assessment of the radiation dose-rate for thermoluminescence dating. Archaeometry 18 1976 107 111 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bell, W.T. Thermoluminescence dating: Radiation dose-rate data. Archaeometry 21 1979 243 245 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fleming, S.J. Thermoluminescence Techniques in Archaeology 1979 Oxford Univ. Press (Clarendon) London/New York 31 Google Scholar
Heller, F. Tungsheng, Liu Magnetostratigraphical dating of loess deposits in China. Nature (London) 300 1982 431 433 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Huhou, Li Thermoluminescence dating of loess. Geochemica 1 1983 82 84 (in China with English abstract) Google Scholar
Huhou, Li Thermoluminescence dating of loess Tungsheng, Liu Loess and Environment 1985 China Ocean Press Beijing 231 238 Google Scholar
Jiliang, Li Jingxian, Pei Zaizhong, Wang Yanchow, Lu A preliminary study of both the thermoluminescence of the quartz silts in loess and the age determination of the loess layers. Kexue Tongbao 11 1977 498 502 (in Chinese) Google Scholar
Tungsheng, Liu Zhisheng, An Baoyin, Yuan Jiamao, Han The Loess-palaeosol sequence in China and climatic history. Episodes 8 1985 21 28 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tungsheng, Liu Tsunghu, Chang Loess in China. Report of the 6th International Congress of Quaternary Geology, Warsaw 6 1964 503 524 Google Scholar
Tungsheng, Liu et al. The Composition and Texture of Loess 1966 Science Press Beijing 9 20 (in Chimese) Google Scholar
Tungsheng, Liu Baoyin, Yuan Yanchou, Lu Progress of Quaternary research in China. Science Reviews 1 1984 55 63 Google Scholar
Yangchou, Lu Zhisheng, An The quest for series of nature environmental changes during the Brunhes Epoch. Kexue Tongbao 24 1979 221 224 (in Chinese with English abstract) Google Scholar
Yanchou, Lu Prescott, J.R. Robertson, G.B. Hutton, J.T. Thermoluminescence dating of the Zhaitang section of the Malan loess, China Tungsheng, Liu Study of Loess and Applications 1986 China Ocean Press Beijing in press Google Scholar
Martinson, D.G. Pisias, N.G. Hays, J.D. Imbrie, J. Moore, T.C. Jr. Shackleton, N.J. Age dating and the orbital theory of the Ice Ages: Development of a high resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy. Quaternary Research 27 1987 1 29 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nishimura, S. Miao, J.V. Sasajima, S. Thermoluminescent dating of paleosol in the Luochuan loess sequence Sasajima, S. Wang, Y.Y. Recent Research of Loess in China 1984 Kyoto University Kyoto 69 78 Google Scholar
Prescott, J.R. Stephan, L.G. The contribution of cosmic radiation to the environmental dose for thermoluminescent dating: Latitude, altitude and depth dependences. Council of Europe Journal PACT 6 1982 17 25 Google Scholar
Readhead, M.L. Extending thermoluminescence dating to geological sediments Ambrose, W. Duerden, P. Archaeometry: An Australian Perspective 1982 Australian National University Canberra 276 281 Google Scholar
Readhead, M.L. Thermoluminescence Dating of Some Australian Sedimentary Deposits. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis 1984 Australian National University Canberra Google Scholar
Readhead, M.L. Thermoluminescence dating study of quartz in aeolian sediments from south-eastern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 1987 in press Google Scholar
Shackleton, N.J. Opdyke, N.D. Oxygen isotope and palaeomagnetic stratigraphy of equatorial Pacific core V28–238: Oxygen isotope temperature and ice volumes on a 105 and 106 year scale. Quaternary Research 3 1973 39 55 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jianzhong, Sun Shuying, Wang Yuzhou, Wang Yajie, Chou Zerong, Lin Qingyun, Zhang Palaeoenvironment of the Last Glacial stage in Northeast China. Quaternaria Sinica 6 1985 81 89 (in Chinese with English abstract) Google Scholar
Wintle, A.G. Thermoluminescence dating of late Devensian loesses in southern England. Nature (London) 289 1981 479 480 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wintle, A.G. Prószyńska, H. TL dating of loess in Germany and Poland. Council of Europe Journal PACT 9 1983 547 554 Google Scholar
Wintle, A.G. Shackleton, N.J. Lautridou, J.P. Thermoluminescence dating of periods of loess deposition and soil formation in Normandy. Nature (London) 310 1984 491 493 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yih, L.F. The geology in Hsi-shan or the Western Hill of Peking. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of China, Series A 1 1920 60 77 Google Scholar
Songling, Zhao Yunshan, Chin Transgressions and sea-level changes in the eastern coastal region of China in the last 300,000 years Quaternary Geology and Environment of China 1982 China Ocean Press Beijing 147 154 Google Scholar
Xitao, Zhao Yongxin, Qu Loess of Zhaitang and Yanchi region, Beijing. Scientia Geologica Sinica 1 1981 47 54 (in Chinese with English abstact) Google Scholar
Kunshu, Zhou Fuhua, Yan Analysis of the late Quaternary pollens from Beijing Plain and its significance. Scientia Geologica Sinica 1 1978 64 71 (in Chinese with English abstract) Google Scholar