A review of luminescence dating on marine sediments

During the past 50 years, luminescence dating has been widely applied to dating various marine sediments, which provides important chronological constraints for researches on climate, structure, and geomorphic activities. This paper summarizes articles related to luminescence dating on marine sediments and discusses the details of the development of luminescence dating methodology as well as its applications for marine sediments. The characteristics of luminescence dating on marine sediments in different regions around the world and their contributions to dating the marine sediments by luminescence dating have been summarized. The deposition and burial processes of marine sediments are relatively complex, and insufficient bleaching phenomena are ubiquitous. The saturated water-bearing sedimentary environment makes it difficult to accurately determine the annual dose. Therefore, in the process of dating and calculating the luminescence ages of marine sediments, it is necessary to analyze the luminescence prope