Characterization of soil mineralogy by FTIR: application to the ...
Aims The objective of this paper was to develop a method based on infrared spectroscopy to compare mineral content in soils and apply it to evaluate soil mineralogical variations in pairs of interpatch and patch soils in a semiarid area. Methods Mixtures of several minerals were analyzed by infrared spectroscopy, the second derivative of the spectra was calculated and the spectra normalized ...