Marine Geochemistry

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The first edition of Marine Geochemistry received strong critical acclaim, and the reviews included the comments that it 'provides a benchmark in the field' and 'is clearly recognizable as a standard text for years to come'. Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. It addresses the fundamental question 'How do the oceans work as a chemical system?' by capitalizing on the significant advances in understanding oceanic processes made over the past three decades. These advances have been facilitated by impr.  Read more... Marine Geochemistry, SECOND EDITION; Contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Symbols and concentration units; List of abbreviations and acronyms; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Setting the background: a unified 'process-orientated' approach to marine geochemistry; Part I: The Global Journey: Material Sources; 2: The input of material to the ocean reservoir; 3: The transport of material to the oceans: the river pathway; 4: The transport of material to the oceans: the atmospheric pathway; 5: The transport of material to the oceans: the hydrothermal pathway. 6: The transport of material to the oceans: relative flux magnitudesPart II: The Global Journey: the Ocean Reservoir; 7: Descriptive oceanography: water-column parameters; 8: Dissolved gases in sea water; 9: Nutrients, organic carbon and the carbon cycle in sea water; 10: Particulate material in the oceans; 11: Trace elements in the oceans; 12: Down-column fluxes and the benthic boundary layer; Part III: The Global