Quantification of Al-goethite from diffuse reflectance spectroscopy and magnetic methods

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-144

  Jiang, Zhaoxia ^a,b   Liu, Qingsong ^a   Colombo, Claudio ^c   Barrón, Vidal ^d   Torrent, José ^d   Hu, Pengxiang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental magnetism; Magnetic mineralogy and petrology; Rock and mineral magnetism

Indexed keywords

AL SUBSTITUTION; AL-SUBSTITUTED GOETHITES; CONCENTRATION VARIATION; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; MAGNETIC METHODS; MAGNETIC MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGIES; ROCK AND MINERAL MAGNETISMS;

HEMATITE; MINERALS; PETROGRAPHY; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM;

ALUMINUM; GOETHITE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC METHOD; MINERALOGY; PEDOGENESIS; PETROLOGY; ROCK PROPERTY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 84890874633     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt377     Document Type: Article

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