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http://dx.doi.org/10.7854/JPSK.2014.23.3.187

Revisiting the OSL Ages of Marine Terrace Sediments at Suryum Fault Site, Gyeongju, South Korea: Single Grain OSL Dating  

Heo, Seoyoung (Division of Earth and Environmental Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, Ochang Center)
Choi, Jeong-Heon (Division of Earth and Environmental Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, Ochang Center)
Hong, Duk-Geun (Department of Physics, Kangwon National University)
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The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea / v.23, no.3, 2014 , pp. 187-195 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we report new OSL ages of the marine terrace sediments at Suryum fault site, using single grains of quartz, and briefly discuss their chronological implications on the timing of terrace formation along the southeastern coast of Korea. Of 1200 grains measured, 93 quartz grains were found to have OSL properties suitable for dating, the equivalent dose ($D_e$) values of which varied significantly, ranging from 50 Gy to 610 Gy with the overdispersion of $30{\pm}4%$. Applied to the Central Age Model (CAM) and Minimum Age Model (MAM), these quartz grains showed the OSL ages of $83{\pm}4ka$ and $60^{+3}{_{-7}}ka$, respectively, both of which are stratigraphically inconsistent with the previously reported OSL ages of lower $2^{nd}$ terrace (MIS 5a; ~80 ka). However, Finite Mixture Model (FMM) revealed that a small fraction of the measured quartz grains ($6{\pm}4%$) were of the ages ($194{\pm}24ka$) corresponding to MIS 7. Conclusively, based on single grain OSL ages, it would be prudent not to exclude the possibility that the marine terrace sediments at Suryum fault site have formed during MIS 7. Further, our single grain OSL ages imply that multiple grain(single aliquot) OSL dating methods are not applicable to the marine sediments at Suryum fault site.
Keywords
Suryum fault; Marine terrace; Single Grain OSL dating; Age Models; MIS 5a; MIS 7;
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