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Over recent decades the uses of thermoluminescence have been expanding rapidly, as have advances in the equipment available for the determinations of this property shown by many materials. Despite this, the comparable growth of applications in the Earth and Archeological Sciences has been markedly overlooked in the mainstream thermal analysis literature, an omission this review sets out to rectify.
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Dedicated to Dr. Robert Mackenzie on the occasion of his 75th birthday
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Warne, S.S.J. Thermoluminescence in the earth sciences and archeology. Journal of Thermal Analysis 48, 39–47 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01978964
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