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Smedley, R.K., Small, D., Jones, R.S., Brough, S., Bradley, J., Jenkins, G.T.H. (2021). Erosion rates in a wet, temperate climate derived from rock luminescence techniques. Geochronology https://gchron.copernicus.org/articles/3/525/2021/.

Murray, A.S., Buylaert, J-P., Guerin, G., Qin, J., Singhvi, A.K., Smedley, R.S., Thomsen, K.T. (2021). Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz sand. Nature Reviews Methods Primer https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-021-00068-5.

Leger, T.P.M., Hein, A.S., Bingham, R.G., Rodes, A., Martini, M.A., Fabel, D., Smedley, R.K. (2021). 10Be chronology and geomorphology of the Patagonian Ice Sheet LGM and deglacial events in northeastern Patagonia, 43°S-71°W. Quaternary Science Reviews, 272, 107194.

Skirrow, G.A., Smedley, R.K., Chiverrell, R.C., Hooke, J. (2021). Planform change of the Rio Chubut in response to environmental change in the southern Andes. Geomorphology, 393, 107924.

Davies, B., Darvill, C., Lovell, H., Bendle, J. M., Geiger, A., Glasser, N.F., Gheorgiu, D.M., Fabel, D., Harrison, S., Hein, A., Martin, J., Mendelova, M., Palmer, A., Pelto, M., Rodes, A., Smedley, R.K., Smellie, J., Thorndycraft, V., Wolff, I., (2020). The evolution of the Patagonian Ice Sheet from 35 ka to the Present Day (PATICE). Earth Science Reviews, 204, 103152.

Smedley, R.K., Duller, G.A.T., Rufer, D., Utley, J. (2020). Empirical assessment of beta dose heterogeneity in sediments: implications for luminescence dating. Quaternary Geochronology 56, 101052 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2020.101052.

Mendelova, M., Hein, A., Rodes, A., Smedley, R.K., Xu, S. (2020). Glacier expansion in central Patagonian during the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 227, 106047 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106047

Smedley, R.K., Skirrow G.K.A. (2020) Luminescence Dating in Fluvial Settings: Overcoming the Challenge of Partial Bleaching. In: Herget J., Fontana A. (eds) Palaeohydrology. Geography of the Physical Environment. Springer, Cham.

Smedley, R.K., Buylaert, J-P., Újvári, G. (2019). Comparing the accuracy and precision of luminescence ages for partially-bleached sediments using single grains of K-feldspar and quartz. Quaternary Geochronology, 53, DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2019.101007. [IF 2.9].

Bradwell, T., Small, D., Fabel, D., Smedley, R.K., Clarke, C., Saher, M., Callard, L., Chiverrell, R.C., Dove, D., Moreton, S., Roberts, D.H., Duller, G.A.T., O Cofaigh, C. (2019). Ice stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength. Science Advances, 5, eaau1380.

Buylaert, J-P., Újvári, G., Murray, A.S., Smedley, R.K., Kook, M. (2019). On the relationship between K concentration, grain size and dose in feldspar. Radiation Measurements, 120, 181-187.

Smedley, R.K. (2018). Telling the time with dust, sand and rocks. Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, 14 (1), 9-14.

https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.14.1.9

Smedley, R.K., Chiverrell, R.C., Burke, M. J., Duller, G.A.T., Thomas, G.S.P., Clarke, C., Scourse, J. (2017). Internal dynamics condition millennial-scale oscillations of a retreating ice stream margin. Geology, 45, 787-790. https://doi.org/10.1130/G38991.1

Smedley, R.K., Scourse, J. Small, D, Hiemstra, Duller, G.A.T., J.F., Burke, M. J., Carr, S.J., Chiverrell, R.C., Fabel, D., McCarroll, D., Clarke, C. (2017). New ages constraints for the southern limit of the British-Irish Ice Sheet on the Isles of Scilly. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32, 48-6. http://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2922.

Smedley, R.K., Glasser, N.F., Duller, G.A.T. (2016). Luminescence dating of glacial advances at Lago Buenos Aires (~46 °S), Patagonia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 134, 59 – 73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.010. 

See also the special issue of Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, titled Luminescence Dating: Reconstructing Earth’s Recent History. Guest Editors: Dr Rachel Smedley & Prof. Ann Wintle. Link: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/elements/issue/14/1