In the present paper, an attempt was made to apply phothoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) i.e., the particular version of photothermal spectroscopy where a quantity of energy deactivated into heat is evaluated, to quantify photophysical processes in a soil sample. As light sources three diodes emitting at blue, green and red bands of visible light spectrum were used. The obtained dependences of photoacoustic signal amplitude versus light modulation frequency did not follow predictions of Rosencwaig-Gersho classic theory since an additional heat exchange mechanism characteristic of powdered solid samples was likely to occur. In visible light spectrum band, two independent transition processes, achievable to our apparatus, were distinguished. The principal parameters: the relative photoacoustic signal amplitude and characteristic times (1.28 and 0.64 ms) of each revealed process were obtained.