Marine geochemistry /

• Main Author: Chester, R. (Roy), 1936-
• Other Authors: Jickells, T. D. (Tim D.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley/Blackwell, [2012]
• Edition: Third edition.
• Subjects: Chemical oceanography.; Marine sediments.; Geochemistry.; NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Oceans & Seas.; SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Oceanography.; Electronic books.

"Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive and integrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, their sediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strong critical acclaim and was described as 'a standard text for years to come.' This third edition of Marine G...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
• pt. I The Global Journey: Material Sources
• 2. The input of material to the ocean reservoir
• 3. The transport of material to the oceans: the fluvial 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 magnitudes
• pt. II The Global Journey: The Ocean Reservoir
• 7. Descriptive oceanography: water-column parameters
• 8. Air-sea gas exchange
• 9. Nutrients, oxygen, organic carbon and the carbon cycle in seawater
• 10. Particulate material in the oceans
• 11. Trace elements in the oceans
• 12. Down-column fluxes and the benthic boundary layer
• pt. III The Global Journey: Material Sinks
• 13. Marine sediments
• 14. Sediment interstitial waters and diagenesis
• 15. The components of marine sediments
• 16. Unscrambling the sediment-forming chemical signals
• pt. IV The Global Journey: Synthesis
• 17. Marine geochemistry: an overview.