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Testing the potential of using fine quartz for dating loess in South Island, New Zealand
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NSTL
Elsevier
The applicability of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating on quartz from South Island, New Zealand is hampered by the poor behaviour of the targeted signals. However, most OSL dating studies have been focused on using coarse quartz fractions. Since a previous study conducted from a nearby site demonstrated that coarse quartz (63-90, 90-125, 125-180 and 180-250 mu m) is not suitable for OSL dating, we attempt using fine quartz here. Therefore, the standard SAR protocol was applied on 4-11 mu m quartz extracted from a loess/paleosol section. Unlike the coarser fractions, the OSL signal of fine quartz displayed satisfactory characteristics which allowed estimating ages ranging from 0.3 & PLUSMN; 0.04 ka to 16 & PLUSMN; 1 ka. In order to understand the differences between the two quartz fractions, we characterise fine (4-11 mu m) as well as the usually used coarser grain sizes (> 63 mu m) of quartz by electron spin resonance (ESR). No significant differences are reported in qualitative terms between the grain sizes investigated and calibration quartz. We report a higher abundance of intrinsic defects in the fine grain fraction; however, this is typical for quartz from other regions as well, that was amenable for OSL dating. As such, the differences between the fine quartz fraction and the coarse fraction is not yet understood. In addition, two elevated temperature post-infrared infrared protocols (pIRIR(225) and pIRIR(290)) were applied and polymineral grains extracted from the same samples. Despite residual dose corrections being performed using a modern analogue, pIRIR ages overestimate quartz ages by 19-122% in the case of the application of the pIRIR(225) protocol and by 25-217% in the case of the application of the pIRIR(290) protocol. The effect could not be circumvented by the application of a test dose with a magnitude of 50% of the equivalent dose in the pIRIR(290) protocol. In the case of the application of pIRIR(290) protocol, dose recovery tests ratios vary from 1.07 & PLUSMN; 0.06 to 1.23 & PLUSMN; 0.05. While not ideal, these results cannot fully explain the differences reported between the ages obtained by fine quartz OSL and the polymineral fine grains pIRIR methods.
NSTL
Elsevier
