Characterization of clay minerals in soils associated with saline lakes, Pantanal da Nhecolândia

• Grant number: 14/06899-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2014
• End date: April 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Physical Geography
• Principal Investigator: Sheila Aparecida Correia Furquim
• Grantee: Alex Cordeiro Brito
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/22491-0 - Soils of southern Pantanal, Nhecolândia subregion: characterization, genesis, and mineralogy, AP.JP

Abstract

Clay minerals of a freshwater lake supposedly originated by degradation of a saline lake will be studied aiming to establish possible genetic relationship with the clay minerals typically formed in the saline-sodic soils surrounding the saline lakes. The samples will be identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and chemically characterized by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).