FT-IR Spectroscopic Studies on Coastal Sediment Samples from Nagapattinum District, Tamilnadu, India
S. Sivakumar
Department of Physics, Mailam Engineering College, Mailam - 604304, Tamilnadu, India
R. Ravisankar *
Research Department of Physics, Government Arts College, Tiruvannamalai-606603, Tamilnadu, India
A. Chandrasekaran
Department of Physics, Global Institute of Engineering &Technology, Vellore-632509, Tamilnadu, India
J. Prince Prakash Jebakumar
Coastal and Environmental Engineering, National Institute of ocean technology, Pallikaranai, Chennai-600100, Tamilnadu, India
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The mineralogical characterization was carried out to determine the major and minor constituents minerals present in the coastal sediment collected in and around Nagapattinum district Tamilnadu, India by FT-IR spectroscopy. The minerals were identified with the help of available literature from the IR absorption band or location of different peaks. The identified minerals are quartz, orthoclase, microcline, albite, kaolinite, montmorlinite, calcite, aragonite and organic carbon. This result shows that FT-IR is a promising technique for identifying and quantifying the mineral analysis.
Keywords: Coastal sediment, Mineral analysis, FT-IR technique