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OSL dating of an inland dune along the lower River Scheldt near Aard (East Flanders, Belgium)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2014

F. Bogemans  and
D. Vandenberghe
F. Bogemans*
Affiliation:
Flemish Heritage Institute(VIOE), Koning Albert II-laan 19 bus 5, 1210 Brussel, Belgium. Present address: Belgian Geological Survey, Jennerstraat 13, 1000 Brussel
D. Vandenberghe*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Mineralogy and Petrology (Luminescence Research Group), Department of Geology and Soil Science, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S8), B-9000 Gent, Belgium
*
Email: frieda.bogemans@natuurwetenschappen.be
Email: frieda.bogemans@natuurwetenschappen.be

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The chronostratigraphic position of aeolian dunes in East Flanders (Belgium) has been under debate for decades. Until now, the only available age information consisted of a limited number of radiocarbon dates, which provided indirect sediment deposition chronologies. This paper reports on the first direct determination, by quartz-based single-aliquot optically stimulated luminescence dating, of the time that dune sands were deposited along the Lower River Scheldt in Belgium. The sediments are dated at 12.0±0.9 ka (n = 5), which confirms that the time of inland dune formation in East Flanders dates from the Younger Dryas period and should not be constrained to the Holocene.

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Research Article
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Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 90 , Issue 1 , August 2011 , pp. 23 - 29
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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2011

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