Optically stimulated luminescence dates for Late Pleistocene Sediments from Stensnaes, Northern Jutland, Denmark

Quartz and feldspars from Late Pleistocene deposits have been studied using the single-aliquot regenerative protocol. Eleven samples were collected fr om a single deposit on the north-west coast of Jutland, Denmark. From geolo gical evidence, we interpret this sedimentary sequence to be glaciofluvial (three samples), glaciolacustrine (six samples) and glaciomarine (two sampl es). Feldspar fading was measured after storage at elevated temperature, an d was undetectable for five samples. In the remainder. fading was between 5 and 9%. Nevertheless, the overall agreement between the quartz and feldspa r dates was very good. The conventional interpretation of the nine freshwat er samples is that they were deposited by the Late Weichselian ice. Our lum inescence ages are significantly older than the time at which this event is believed to have started in this region, and they are independently suppor ted by one C-14 age. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.