Rare earth elements in gneiss regoliths in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil



Título del documento: Rare earth elements in gneiss regoliths in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil
Revista: Scientia Agricola
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000455217
ISSN: 0103-9016
Autores: 1
1
1
Instituciones: 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Piracicaba, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Año:
Volumen: 78
Número: 3
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, analítico
Resumen en inglés Regolith characterization in its entirety is particularly difficult in gneissic regoliths due to the heterogeneity of their rock structure. Rare earth elements (REE) are a useful tool in helping understand the evolution of regoliths. This study relates the mineralogy and weathering indexes of three gneisses regoliths (P1-leucocratic, P2-mesocratic and P3-melanocratic gneisses) to the distribution of REE at depth. In soil, clay activity, iron and manganese oxides, CaO, SiO2, P2O5, TiO2, Fe2O3, and MgO showed high positive correlation with REE. The absolute content of REE was enriched in mafic minerals. At the interface between the soil and saprolite, the sum of absolute REE content was greater in soil than in saprolite in P1, while the opposite pattern was found in P2 and P3. The sums of absolute REE in the whole profiles did not overlap between P1, P2 and P3, and the absolute concentration of Gadolinium (Gd) differentiated the three gneisses in all and every horizon/layer of their regoliths without overlapping values. Normalized REE content was greater in the subsurface of P1 due to Eu content in plagioclase, and fractionation had less variation when estimated by Light REE / Heavy REE (LREE/HREE) than by La/Yb, since the variation in REE is great in gneisses (due to the segregation of minerals into bands), and had low levels of association with the Chemical Index of Alteration (CIA) and the Weathering Index of Parker (WIP)
Disciplinas: Agrociencias,
Geociencias
Palabras clave: Geología,
Suelos,
Regolito,
Saprolitos,
Meteorización,
Edafología
Keyword: Soils,
Geology,
Regolith,
Saprolites,
Weathering,
Edaphology
Texto completo: Texto completo (Ver HTML) Texto completo (Ver PDF)