Analytical Capabilities:

Quartz Luminescence Dating

• Multi-grain aliquot or single-grain dating
• Blue (or blue-green) continuous wave (CW) OSL
• Linearly-modulated (LM-) OSL and signal deconvolution
• Thermally-transferred (TT-) OSL for late-mid Pleistocene samples
• Red-enhanced TL (RTL) for volcanic quartz or burned flint
• Thermoluminescence dating

Feldspar Luminescence Dating

• Multi-grain aliquot or single-grain dating
• Multi-grain aliquot or single-grain anomalous fading measurements
• Multi-grain aliquot or single-grain anomalous fading corrections
• Traditional infrared (IR) stimulated luminescence dating (IR stimulation at 50°C)
• Post-IRIR or Multi-Elevated Temperature (MET-IRSL) dating
• Post-Isothermal IRSL
• Thermoluminescence dating

Environmental dosimetry

• Gamma Spectrometry

• Portable gamma spectrometry measurements at the sample site
• Laboratory-based gamma ray measurements of U-238 and Th-232 and associated daughters, and K-40 for luminescence dating
• Laboratory-based gamma ray measurements of Pb-210 and Cs-137 for short-lived radionuclide dating.

• Alpha and beta counting

• Direct measurement of alpha and beta emission in sediment for dose rate determination