Determining hematite content from NUV/Vis/NIR spectra: Limits of detection

American Mineralogist

Volumn 99, Issue 11-12, 2014, Pages 2280-2291

  Balsam, William ^a   Ji, Junfeng ^b   Renock, Devon ^a   Deaton, Bobby C ^c   Williams, Earle ^d  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

color; diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry; first derivative transform; Hematite; Kubelka Munk remission function; XRD

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COLOR; DATA HANDLING; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CALIBRATION SAMPLES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROPHOTOMETRIES; FIRST DERIVATIVE; KUBELKA-MUNK; LIMITS OF DETECTION; MINERAL COMPOSITION; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

HEMATITE;

CALIBRATION; COLOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEMATITE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84910132177     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2014-4878     Document Type: Article

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