It is the rocks themselves. Infrared luminescence is the name of the effect. It is a bit like fluorescence except that the emission occurs in the infrared rather than the visible part of the spectrum.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1052c/report.pdf
It is the rocks themselves. Infrared luminescence is the name of the effect. It is a bit like fluorescence except that the emission occurs in the infrared rather than the visible part of the spectrum.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1052c/report.pdf