RIMAPS and Variogram Characterization of Soil Microstructure Patterns

FAVRET E.; FUENTES N.; MORRÁS H.

MICROSCOPY & MICROANALYSIS

Cambridge University Press

Año: 2006 vol. 12 p. 1688 - 1689

1431-9276

This research work introduces the application of Rotated Image with Maximum Average Power Spectrum (RIMAPS) and Variogram on micromorphological studies of soil samples. This kind of analysis allows finding the preferential directions, determined by RIMAPS, of the soil microstructure pattern according to different scale lengths (SL), and calculated by Variogram. The soil sample studied corresponds to the A surface horizon of a Typic Hapludoll from the Pampean region of Argentina. A thin section of the soil was observed by transmission polarizing light microscopy.