Thesis
Factors determining the thermoluminescence of chronologically significant materials
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Thermoluminescence has been successfully applied to the dating of pottery from archaeological sites and the good agreement obtained between the TL dates and the archaeologically known dates suggested that the basic assumptions concerning the build up and release of trapped charges were correct. In this thesis I report the results of a test programme I carried out on recent volcanic lava of known age: the TL ages were all far too young and hence it was apparent that at least one of the assu...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Copyright holder:
- Wintle, A; Wintle, Ann Grace
- Copyright date:
- 1974
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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