Testing the Use of OSL on Cobbles From the Raised Beaches of King George Island, Antarctica

• Main Author: Kouremenos, Procopios
• Other Authors: Simms, Alex, DeWitt, Regina, Puckette, James
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Oklahoma State University 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; King George Island; Raised Beach; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/8033

The purpose of this thesis is to find a new method for dating raised-beach deposits in order to create more accurate sea-level curves for the Antarctic Peninsula. We test the use of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) in dating cobbles from raised beaches within the South Shetland Islands of the...