New relationships among the low-temperature alkali feldspars were deduced in part and implied in whole by recent crystal structure analyses of low and high albite and consideration of the electrostatic charge distributions in all the known alkali feldspar structures by Ferguson, Traill & Taylor. In general the most stable low-temperature forms are not those most highly ordered with respect to A...

Recent developments in the use of more stable feldspar signals in the luminescence dating of sediments offer the possibility of obtaining accurate feldspar luminescence ages for ceramic artefacts; this is especially interesting in locations which do not provide suitable quartz extracts. Here we examine the application of the stable infrared stimulated luminescence signal measured at elevated te...