ESR Dating - Projects

Die Anwendung der ESR-Datierung an sedimentären Quarzen aus fluvialen Ablagerungen

Investigators:

Dr. Patrick Schielein

• Methods: ESR-dating.
• Funding: FNK (University of Bamberg).
• Duration: 10.07.2013 - 01.10.2014

Vergleichende Datierung verschiedener fluvialer Sedimente aus dem Nara Becken (Japan) mit Lumineszenz- und ESR-Techniken

Investigators:

Dr. Patrick Schielein

• Methods: Luminescence- and ESR-dating at Nara Women' s University (Japan).
• Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
• Duration: 01.11.2012 - 31.03.2013

Electron-Spin-Resonance (ESR) dating method

Investigators:

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schellmann (Bamberg), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Radtke (Institute of Geography, University of Cologne)

• Aim: Investigations on the accuracy and precision of ESR dating of corals, mollusk shells and gastropods
• Methods: ESR dating laboratory: Institute of Geography, University of Cologne.
• Funding: Universities of Cologne, Essen and Bamberg. 

Quaternary coral reef tracts of Curaçao –ESR dating of Holocene and Pleistocene coral

Investigators:

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schellmann (Bamberg), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Radtke (Institute of Geography, University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Dieter Kelletat (Institute of Geography, University of Essen)

• Aim: Palaeo-sea-level reconstruction (Schellmann, Bamberg and Radtke, Cologne) and C-14 dating of Holocene Tsunami events (Coordinator of Tsunami research: Kelletat, Essen); improvement of dating Holocene coral by ESR (Schellmann, Bamberg and Radtke, Cologne)
• Methods: Geomorphological mapping and absolute dating: ESR dating (Schellmann, Bamberg and Radtke, Cologne) and C-14 dating (Kromer, Heidelberg)
• Funding: DFG; Universities of Cologne, Essen and Bamberg

Morphostratigraphy and geochronology of coastal terraces and eolian deposits on Cyprus, Crete and Rhodos

Investigators:

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schellmann (Bamberg), Prof. Dr. Dieter Kelletat (Institute of Geography, University of Essen), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Radtke (Institute of Geography, University of Cologne)

• Aim: Palaeo-sea-level reconstruction; Studies on neotectonics
• Methods: Geomorphological mapping, sedimentological and palaeopedological field investigations (Schellmann, Bamberg and Kelletat, Essen). Absolute dating: ESR dating (Schellmann, Bamberg and Radtke, Cologne)
• Funding: University of Essen