Environmental Geochemistry in the Tropics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wasserman, Julio Cesar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Silva-Filho, Emmanoel V. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Villas-Boas, Roberto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 72
• Subjects: Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Nature conservation.; Geotechnical engineering.; Environmental monitoring.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Nature Conservation.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.

Held in 1993 in Niterói, Brazil, the first International Conference on Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical Countries established a starting point for this book. The book opens with a discussion of the points that arose during the closing session, summarised by Dr. E.K. Duursma: The Environment i...

Table of Contents:

• Trends in environmental geochemistry in tropical countries
• Paleoclimate studies in Brazil using carbon isotopes in soils
• Soil-to-plant transfer of 137Cs related to its geochemical partitioning in Oxisols of tropical areas
• Speciation, reactivity and mobility of toxic elements in soil systems
• Key role of flow velocity and pH in the lixiviation of mineral-forming elements
• Spatial distribution and seasonal patterns of aquatic emergent plants in Southeast Brazil: Development of a tool for mass balances
• Instrumental multi-element analysis in plant materials: A modern method in environmental chemistry and tropical systems research
• Chemistry and distribution of trace elements in the Patos lagoon, South Brazil
• Mass balance estimation of natural and anthropogenic heavy metal fluxes in streams near the camaquã copper mines, Rio Grande do sul, Brazil
• A model for geochemical partitioning of heavy metals in the mar del Plata coastal ecosystem, Argentina
• Mangrove swamps of the Subaé and Paraguaçú tributary rivers of Todos os Santos Bay, Bahia, Brazil
• Metal scavenging and cycling in a tropical coastal region
• Mercury behaviour in sediments from a sub-tropical coastal environment in SE Brazil
• Diagnosis of environmental problems related to vein gold mining in Colombia
• Assessment of the heavy metal pollution in a gold "garimpo"
• Mercury partitioning within alluvial sediments of the Carson river valley, Nevada: Implications for sampling strategies in tropical environments
• Hydrogeochemical description of groundwaters from a coastal region of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
• Long term atmospheric aerosol characterization in the Amazon Basin
• Are tropical estuaries environmental sinks or sources?.