RT Journal Article
T1 Evaluation of Portable Raman for the Characterization of Salt Efflorescences at Petra, Jordan
A1 López Arce, Paula
A1 Zornoza Indart, Ainara
A1 Vázquez Calvo, Carmen
A1 Gómez Heras, Miguel
A1 Álvarez de Buergo, Mónica
A1 Fort, Rafael
AB The advantages of using portable Raman spectrometer equipment, such as avoiding sampling and providing a higher number of results, are contrasted with some of its shortfalls that make other analytical techniques necessary to characterize salt efflorescences on historic buildings. In-situ analyses of salt efflorescences were carried out with a portable Raman at both the so-called ‘‘Silk Tomb’’ and ‘‘Monastery’’ rock-cut façades at the Archaeological Park of Petra (Jordan). Samples were also taken to be analyzed in the laboratory with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy-Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and Cathodoluminescence (ESEM-EDS-CL). This research shows the pros and cons of these analytical techniques—and how they complement each other—to identify the occurrence and determine the origin of soluble salts, which are deeply damaging these rock-cut monuments by salt crystallization processes.
PB Taylor and Francis Group
SN 0038-7010
YR 2011
FD 2011-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107597
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107597
LA eng
NO This submission was presented during the CORALS-2 Meeting on Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Luminescence Studies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences, which was held between May 19th and 21st, 2011, Madrid, Spain. This is an invited paper for a special CORALS-2 GEO-SPECTROSCOPY issue of Spectroscopy Letters.Received 22 June 2011 / accepted 6 July 2011.Paula López-Arce: plopezar@geo.ucm.es.Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
NO Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
NO Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
DS Docta Complutense
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