| Summary: | 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 properties of specific samples, select the appropriate equivalent dose test method, and adopt the appropriate annual dose correction method for age calculation. The luminescence dating method has shown unique advantages in various studies of marine sediments since the late Pleistocene. The targeted minerals for luminescence dating commonly exist in marine sediments.With great developments in recent years, the age accuracy has also been significantly improved, which can provide a high-precision absolute chronostratigraphic framework for various studies of marine sediments since the late Pleistocene.
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