New Dating Techniques to Reconstruct the Environment and Climate Change in Dynamic Landscapes

A significant progress in the reconstruction and quantification of environment change will be achieved by the development of new innovative techniques in luminescence dating. This will result in an improvement of our knowledge about the dynamics of landscape alteration, such as periods of aggradation and erosion in fluvial systems, the dislocation of coastlines and the reconstruction of climate change from continuous sediment archives. The research topic “Geochronology” was benchmarked as “outstanding” during the evaluation of the LIAG in 2004.