An attempt to develop spectrophotometry as a proxy for sedimentary studies in estuarine environments

• Author(s): Veiga-Pires, C. ; Mestre, Nélia ; Moura, Delminda ; Luis, Joaquim ; Boski, T.
• Date: 2004
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/2801
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Estuarine; Environments
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Sapientia

Description

In deep-sea sediment studies, reflectance has been used as a proxy for high vs. low productivity intervals for several years. This value of the white-black scale is obtained through the use of spectrophotometers when using the CIE Lab color system, which also gives values on green-red and blue-yellow scales. In estuarine/continental sediment studies, color data are still often based on Munsell Table which does not allow to obtain numeric and continuous data and which is biased by the observer’s choice.