Caracterização mineral de um latossolo vermelho distrófico da região dos Campos Gerais

Abstract

This work aims to survey the mineral profile of the Red Latosol Distrophic of the Campos Gerais region of the State of Paraná. The study of soil mineralogy is of fundamental importance, since it is a way of knowing the formation of each soil, its origin, its physical chemical characteristics, its structure and the minerals available to the plants. Samples of the natural soil, extracted from the forest and the soil submitted to no - tillage management, were analyzed for a comparison and analysis of the management 's impact on the mineralogy. To perform the characterization, the analytical techniques of infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence were applied. The results obtained by the applied techniques were very similar, both for the natural soil and for the no-tillage. It was verified the presence of minerals such as quartz, gibbsite, hematite, kaolinite and rutin, which were confirmed in the three techniques. Other minerals such as anatase, montmorillonite, vermiculite and haloisite presented in a dubious manner.