“…Provenzano and co -workers have used DSC extensively to explore thermograms of soil, sediment, and aquatic organic matter and their fractions, relating the observed patterns to sample nature (i.e., composition) and their origin Senesi, 1998, 1999 ;Provenzano et al, 2006 ). Provenzano and co -workers have used DSC extensively to explore thermograms of soil, sediment, and aquatic organic matter and their fractions, relating the observed patterns to sample nature (i.e., composition) and their origin Senesi, 1998, 1999 ;Provenzano et al, 2006 ).…”