Quaternary Geochronology

Papers
(The median citation count of Quaternary Geochronology is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Coupled ESR and U-series dating of the northernmost evidence of Gigantopithecus from Jianshi Longgudong site, China39
Clean quartz matters for cosmogenic nuclide analyses: An exploration of the importance of sample purity using the CRONUS-N reference material34
Downstream change of luminescence sensitivity in sedimentary quartz and the rearrangement of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) components along two large rivers31
Comment on “Luminescence chronology of the Sankosh river terraces in the Assam–Buthan foothills of the Himalayas: Implications to climate and tectonics” by Quaternary Geochronology 72, 10136425
Testing the applicability of standardised growth curves (SGCs) for OSL signals of quartz grains from the Yangtze Delta, China25
A targeted drilling and dating campaign to identify Stone Age archaeological sites before excavation in west coast southern Africa25
Luminescence dating of Enigmatic rock structures in New England, USA22
Aeolian landform processes since the last deglaciation revealed by OSL chronology and stratigraphy in the Hulunbuir dune field in NE China21
An evaluation of two cryptotephra quantification methods applied on lacustrine sediments with distant Laacher See tephra fallout21
Snow avalanche synchronicity derived from a multi-path tree-ring reconstruction in the Făgăraș Mountains (Southern Carpathians, Romania)19
Dating the Neanderthal environment: Detailed luminescence chronology of a palaeochannel sediment core at the Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg in the Lower Saxony, northern Germany19
A new and effective method for quartz-feldspar separation for OSL and CRN dating19
From ice-dammed lake to aeolian dunes in the Store Mosse area, SW Sweden18
Luminescence dating of middle to late Pleistocene marine terrace deposits in southern Hokkaido, Japan18
Using X-rays as an irradiation source for direct ESR dating of fossil teeth17
Pysochron: A Python-based solution for calculating cosmogenic 26Al/10Be isochron burial ages15
Quartz OSL and TL dating of pottery, burnt clay, and sediment from Beicun archaeological site, China15
Multi-method pIRIR dating of sedimentary sequences at the southern edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert, NW China and its palaeoenvironmental implications14
Single grain pIRIR dating of glacigenic deposits in the Yuzhu Peak area of Kunlun Mountains of Tibetan Plateau revealed the glaciations during Holocene period14
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Direct dating of marine sediments using optically stimulated luminescence techniques: Insights from ODP cores 658B and 659A13
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A method to date rock engravings using luminescence – tested at Murujuga, Western Australia12
OSL dating of very young aeolian sediments of NW Spain to assess dune erosion and accretion periods12
Direct dating of a major rockfall at the Ba'ja Neolithic site (Jordan) using rock surface luminescence12
Rapid, effective screening of tar seep fossils for radiocarbon and stable isotope analysis12
Testing the potential of using coarse-grain feldspars for post-IR IRSL dating of calcium sulphate-wedge growth in the Atacama Desert12
Unraveling the deposition and incision paces of alluvial fan-river system by using single grain K-feldspar luminescence dating11
Using quartz OSL signals from SAR cycles for sediment provenance studies11
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The complexity of luminescence dating of tidal sand body revealed by the discrepancy of paired quartz OSL ages11
High resolution luminescence and radiocarbon dating of Holocene Aeolian silt (loess) in west Greenland11
Single-grain luminescence dating of K-feldspar based on the pre-dose MET-pIRIR protocol10
Luminescence dating of rock surfaces in challenging environments: The case of MIS5e gravelly transgressive lag deposit (Southern Sardinia, West Mediterranean Sea)10
Quartz luminescence sensitivity enhanced by residence time in the critical zone10
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High-precision radiocarbon dating and carbon reservoir effect of a maar lake in South China10
Luminescence and ESR dating of the sedimentary infill from the multi-level cave system of Alkerdi-Zelaieta (Navarre, N Spain)9
High-resolution 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Koobi Fora Tuff Complex, Turkana Basin: Implications for the hominin bearing strata of the Early Pleistocene (1.6–1.4 Ma)9
Contribution of coupled ESR/U-series fossil dating to a Paleolithic-Neolithic transition site - Naminan, Southwest China9
Luminescence dating of shoreline sediments indicates a late deglacial lake-level rise of Selin Co on the central Tibetan Plateau9
Constraining the eruption history of Rangitoto volcano, New Zealand, using palaeomagnetic data9
A tool for the ages: The Probabilistic Cosmogenic Age Analysis Tool (P-CAAT)9
Radiometric dating of Meipu hominin site in China by coupled ESR/U-series and cosmogenic 26Al/10Be burial dating methods9
Challenges of dating quartz OSL samples with saturated grains: Lessons from single-grain analyses of low dose-rate samples from Victoria Falls, Zambia8
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A detailed luminescence chronology of the Lower Volga loess-palaeosol sequence at Leninsk8
Luminescence dating of sandy loess along the middle Yellow River and its implications for aeolian–fluvial interactions8
Late-glacial fluctuations of Himalayan glaciers: 10Be surface exposure dating northwest of Mt. Gang Benchhen8
Effects of the size of the test dose on the SAR protocol for quartz optically stimulated luminescence dating of loess in the eastern Tibetan Plateau8
ESR/U-series and pIR-IR290 dating of the Middle Pleistocene site of Lunel-Viel (LV I), Hérault, Southern France8
Optimizing radiocarbon chronologies in peat profiles with examples from Xinjiang, China8
Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy and pollen stratigraphy of Uwa Formation, Shikoku Island, SW Japan: Reconsidering the MIS 11 super-interglacial horizon8
Testing a proposed new chronology for the Jasmund Glacitectonic Complex (SW Baltic Sea): No indication of incipient deformation during MIS 38
Unexpectedly old luminescence ages as an indicator of the origin of the upper Volga River valley sediments8
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Electron spin resonance dating of quartz from archaeological sites at Victoria Falls, Zambia8
Contribution of dendrogeomorphology to the dating of secondary processes on dormant rockslides8
New volcanological, 40Ar/39Ar dating and paleomagnetic record from Trindade Island and stratigraphic implications8
A simulation approach to quantify the parameters and limitations of the radiocarbon wiggle-match dating technique8
Luminescence dating of glacially sourced deposits from northern Switzerland: Comparing multigrain aliquots and single grains of quartz and feldspar8
‘Mammothfluidics’: Amino acid dating of fossil mammal tooth enamel using a modular microfluidic system7
Revisiting natural and laboratory electron spin resonance (ESR) dose response curves of quartz from Chinese loess7
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Characterizing and dating authigenic phosphates from the sedimentary infill of Atapuerca archaeo-paleoanthropological cave sites (Spain)7
Comparison of De values from Late Pleistocene alluvial deposits on the coast of Galicia (NW Spain) using BayLum or Analyst-based procedures7
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Luminescence chronology of loess-palaeosol deposits in the Central Shandong Mountains region: Provenances and paleoclimate implications7
Reconstructing the Holocene volcanic past of El Hierro, Canary Islands7
Age-depth modelling and the effect of including – or not – shared errors across sets of OSL samples: The case study of Beg-er-Vil (Brittany, France)7
Geochemical analysis of extremely fine-grained cryptotephra: New developments and recommended practices7
Sedimentation history linked to global change in the alpine Damqu Wetland of the Yangtze River headwater in interior Tibetan Plateau7
Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating at Penhill Farm: An Earlier Stone Age Acheulean locality in the lower Sundays River Valley, South Africa7
Examining sediment infill dynamics at Naracoorte cave megafauna sites using multiple luminescence dating signals7
Luminescence ages of sediments from the margin of the penultimate glaciation in the north-eastern East European plain6
Diversification of landslide areas as a means for reducing noise in dendrogeomorphic dating6
ESR dating of optically bleached quartz grains from Plio-Pleistocene to Holocene coastal dune deposits (Wilderness-Knysna area, South Africa): a comparison with luminescence6
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Dating basal peat: The geochronology of peat initiation revisited6
The impact of data reduction on classical and Bayesian210Pb dating models6
Radiocarbon and luminescence age estimate database for the Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area: a reliability-assurance assessment6
Last 150 kyr volcanic activity on Mauritius island (Indian ocean) revealed by new Cassignol-Gillot unspiked K–Ar ages6
Multi-method luminescence dating of late Cenozoic northern Upper Rhine Graben fluvial sediments6
A detailed quartz and feldspar luminescence chronology for the Khonako II loess section (Southern Tajikistan)6
Long-term preservation of amino acid racemization interlaboratory comparison samples6
The De underestimation caused by the unstable medium component in the initial OSL signal from lava-baked quartz and correction strategies6
Dating the setting of a late prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal6
Application and evaluation of multiple-centres ESR dating of Pliocene-Quaternary fluvial sediments: A case study from the Zhoulao core from the Jianghan Basin, middle Yangtze River basin, China6
Single-grain K-feldspar luminescence dating of the late Quaternary rapid decline in the largest Lake over the Tibetan Plateau6
Controls on luminescence signals in lake sediment cores: A study from Lake Suigetsu, Japan6
Isolating quartz-dominated OSL signal of rock slice by using pulsed stimulation: Implications for dating burial age of cobbles6
Combined single grain and cobble luminescence dating of poorly bleached glaciofluvial deposits from the Swiss Alpine foreland6
Chronology of Early to Mid-Pleistocene sediments in the northern North Sea: New evidence from amino acid and strontium isotope analyses6
Absolute dating of sediments forming the Lena river terraces (Northeastern Siberia)6
Post-glacial small delta process uncovered by luminescence and radiocarbon chronology of core sediments from coastal South China Sea6
Thermal stability and closure temperature of barite for electron spin resonance dating6
Bleachability of pIRIR signal from single-grain K-feldspar6
Luminescence chronology of the Sankosh river terraces in the Assam- Bhutan foothills of the Himalayas: Implications to climate and tectonics5
Diachronic quantification of the local marine reservoir effect (MRE) using Loripes orbiculatus shells from Late Holocene lagoonal deposits at Puntone di Scarlino (Central Tuscany, Italy): Proposed rol5
Integrating age modeling into a hierarchical Bayesian framework for inferring the pattern and rate of past sea-level changes from uncertainty-prone proxy data5
Testing the potential of a standardized growth curve approach for improving the applicability and performance of fading correction5
The upper Pleistocene loess-palaeosol sequence at solonovka on the Cis-Altai plain, west Siberia – First luminescence dating results5
Luminescence dating of Late Pleistocene sea level change and cryogenesis in the northern Caspian region (Chernyy Yar section)5
Constraining the age of the Pleistocene sedimentary infill of Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, N Spain) through a multi-technique dating approach5
A luminescence-derived cryptostratigraphy from the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary profile, Japan: 45,000–30,200 IntCal20 yr BP5
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U-series in situ dating of secondary carbonates associated with rock paintings using LA-MC-ICPMS5
Applying a Bayesian approach for refining the chronostratigraphy of the Yumidong site in the Three Gorges region, central China5
Dating Neolithic rubble layers from Ba'ja and Basta sites in southern Jordan using luminescence5
A luminescence dating study of the upper part of the loess-palaeosol sequence at Kuldara, Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan5
Progress and pitfalls of the SAR protocol for the quartz violet stimulated luminescence (VSL) signal: A case study from Sardinia5
Revisiting a proof of concept in quartz-OSL bleaching processes using sands from a modern-day river (the Séveraisse, French Alps)5
Coarse-grained K-rich feldspar and fine-grained polymineral IRSL dating of loess-palaeosol from the Chinese Loess Plateau: A comparison5
Shedding light on the timing of the largest Late Quaternary transgression of the Caspian Sea5
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Luminescence dating reveals a rapid response to climate change of fluvial terrace formation along the Ani River, northeastern Japan, during the last glacial period5
WITHDRAWN: ESR-thermochronometry of the MIZ1 borehole, Tono, Japan5
Luminescence dating of the MIS 6 glaciation of the Pamir mountains (Central Asia)4
A new tephrochronological record of a raised bog in eastern lowland Scotland4
Chronology of the late Lower and Middle Palaeolithic at Tabun Cave (Mount Carmel, Israel) with insights into diagenesis and dose rate variation using post-IR IRSL (pIRIR290) dating and infrared spectr4
New chronological constraints for the lowermost stratigraphic unit of Atapuerca Gran Dolina (Burgos, N Spain)4
A method to evaluate the degree of bleaching of IRSL signals in feldspar: The 3ET method4
New chronological constraints on the history of the Kalahari Group from the Upper Ugab Valley, Namibia4
Survival of the brightest? pIRIR dating of volcanic sediments in Sulawesi, Indonesia, using micro-aliquots of K-rich feldspar4
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Developing robust lake sediment chronologies using 210Pb, Pu and radiocarbon dating of pollen concentrates and macrofossil: A case study from Lake Surprise, Victoria, Australia4
Luminescence dating of cobbles buried in moraines from the source area of the Litang River (Konglongluo Valley), eastern Tibetan Plateau4
Getting the right age? Testing luminescence dating of both quartz and feldspars against independent age controls4
Determining equivalent dose for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating with physically meaningful dose response curves4
Dating post-LGM aeolian sedimentation and the Late Palaeolithic in Central Yakutia (northeastern Siberia)4
Luminescence dating of the Huliu River terraces in the Nihewan Basin, North China4
Observing impacts on luminescence depth profile evolutions from surface altered quartzite using OSL laser scanning and controlled light exposed rock sampling techniques4
Single-grain K-feldspar post-IR IRSL dating of glaciofluvial sediments of Guxiang Glaciation in SE Tibetan Plateau4
Luminescence for sedimentary provenance quantification in river basins: A methodological advancement4
Holocene lake shrinkage on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau revealed by K-feldspar single-grain pIRIR dating of paleo-shorelines4
Radiocarbon offsets between organic carbon and carbonates: implications for Holocene paleoceanographic reconstructions in the Cabo Frio upwelling system4
Novel age constraints on offshore islets around Taiwan with implications for the northern Taiwan volcanic zone4
Dating of megaflood deposits in the Russian Altai using rock surface luminescence4
Feasibility of rock surface luminescence dating technique for measuring the burial ages of unheated flints4
Violet stimulated luminescence as an alternative for dating complex colluvial sediments in the Atacama Desert4
Re-examining the earliest evidence of human presence in western Europe: New dating results from Pirro Nord (Italy)4
Thermoluminescence dating of gypsum in loess deposits4
Luminescence chronology of the Velika Vrbica loess-palaeosol sequence (Wallachian Basin): Evaluating quartz and K-feldspar signals from MIS 5 to the Holocene4
A Bayesian hierarchical age model for single-grain optical dating of feldspars4
Combined different luminescence dating approaches on fluvial gravel deposits from the southern upper Rhine graben4
Electron spin resonance signals of historical lime mortars: Towards ESR dating of anthropogenic carbonates4
Testing the applicability of standardised growth curves for chemically heterogeneous single-grain feldspars from the Atacama Desert, Chile4
Analyzing complex single grain feldspar equivalent dose distributions for luminescence dating of glacially derived sediments4
Evaluating the effectiveness of heavy liquid density separation in isolating K-feldspar grains using alluvial sediments from the Hajar Mountains, Oman3
ESR and luminescence thermochronometry of the Rhône valley, Switzerland3
Luminescence characteristics of coastal sediments in Langhovde, East Antarctica3
Late Quaternary lake level record of Orog Nuur, southern Mongolia, revealed by optical dating of paleo-shorelines3
OSL and radiocarbon dating of core TBF-1 on the outer shelf of the East China Sea and implications for late Quaternary stratigraphic correlation3
Fluctuations of magnetic inclination and declination in Mexico during the last three millennia3
The SPICE Project: Calibrated production rates of cosmogenic 3He and 21Ne in olivine and pyroxene from the 72 ka SP basalt flow, Arizona, USA3
Coupled luminescence and cosmogenic nuclide dating of postglacial deflation surfaces and sand drift on a raised ice-contact delta at Veinge, SW Sweden3
Post-violet infrared stimulated luminescence (pVIRSL) dating protocol for potassium feldspar3
Extended-range luminescence chronologies for the Middle Pleistocene units at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)3
P–PINI: A cosmogenic nuclide burial dating method for landscapes undergoing non-steady erosion3
Multi dating approach of long marine core sediments from the south-eastern continental shelf of Korea: Comparison of SAR OSL, TT-OSL and pIRIR dates3
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Estimating extinction time using radiocarbon dates3
Chronology by luminescence and radiocarbon on core sediments from the northeastern pearl river plain and implications for delta process3
Direct dating of an ancient stone causeway at Karlslunde, Sjælland, Denmark: A combined approach using luminescence from the surfaces of granitic cobbles and coarse grains from disaggregated heated ro3
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Dating the middle and late Quaternary Caspian Sea-level fluctuations: First luminescence data from the coast of Turkmenistan3
Early diagenetic imprints and U–Th isotope systematics of fossil land snail shells from the Chinese Loess Plateau3
ESR/U-series dating of palaeontological remains from the Neanderthal site of Mutzig-Rain (Alsace, France)3
Isothermal thermoluminescence dating of speleothem growth – A case study from Bleßberg cave 2, Germany3
The challenges of direct dating of fossil teeth from the Australopithecus africanus, Taung Child type site, South Africa3
An integrated study of constraining the initial 230Th of a stalagmite and its implications3
Luminescence dating of Holocene sediment cores from a wave-dominated and mountainous river delta in central Vietnam3
Accurate chronological construction for two young stalagmites from the tropical South Pacific3
A radiocarbon chronology for Sanamere Lagoon, Cape York Peninsula, using multiple organic fractions3
Optical dating of charcoal kiln remains from WWII: A test of accuracy3
ESR/U-series dating of Eemian human occupations of Northern France3
Rapid assessment of beta dose variation inside cobbles, and implications for rock luminescence dating3
ESR chronology of the endokarstic deposits of Galería complex (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)3
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