Thermoluminescence behavior of basaltic rocks collected in southeastern region of Turkey

Basalt is well known as an extrusive igneous rock erupts on land by volcanic eruption. It is darker, denser and finer grained compared to the familiar granite of the continents. The study reveals the thermoluminescence properties (TL) of basaltic rocks which collected in southeastern region of Turkey. With this study, the variations of glow curve of the basalt at the different grain sizes, different annealing temperature and different annealing time have been investigated. This study also includes, dose response and heating rate experiments. As a result, the basalt sample shows thermoluminescence properties with a wide peak about 200 °C. The best TL sensitivity was observed at samples whose grain size is ~100 µm. The basalt sample has a wide TL glow curve. A linearity for the values up to 155 Gy and supralinearity between 155 Gy and 615 Gy in dose response are observed and it reaches to saturation beyond 615 Gy. Thermal treatments at higher temperatures decrease the TL sensitivity.