OSL-Dating: Constraining the Pleistocene environmental history of the Atacama: Extending the age range of luminescence dating (D05)

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This projects aims to extend the age range of luminescence dating from ~0.2-0.4 Ma towards 1 Ma. The landscape of the Atacama is dominated by clastic deposits, and luminescence dating offers a widely applicable and versatile technique for constraining the timing of environmental changes. Extending the age range will enable the temporal gap between geochronological methods from other sub-projects to be spanned, for example, whereas the upper limit of radiocarbon dating is ~50 ka, the lower limit of cosmogenic burial dating is ~0.5 Ma.