Résumé
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 recognisable 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. Advances which have been facilitated by improved sampling and analytical techniques, a better understanding of theoretical concepts, and the instigation of large-sized international oceanographic programmes.
Designed for use as a text, the book treats the oceans as a unified system in which material stored in the sea water, the sediment and the rock reservoirs interacts to control the composition of sea water itself. Part I covers the transport of material to the oceans via rivers, the atmosphere and hydrothermal systems, and discusses their relative flux magnitudes. Part II considers the oceans as a reservoir, introducing water-column parameters before discussing water-column fluxes and the benthic boundary layer. Part III is devoted to the sediment reservoir. The topics covered include diagenesis, the major components of the sediments, and the processes controlling the geochemistry of oceanic deposits, which are discussed in terms of sediment-forming signals. Part IV offers an overview and synthesis of the integrated marine geochemical system.
Since the publication of the first edition, there have been further significant advances in several areas of the subject. The revised text of this edition accommodates these advances, whilst still retaining the emphasis on identifying key processes operating within a unified ocean. Special attention has been paid to fundamental conceptual changes, such as those related to trace metal speciation in sea water, hydrothermal activity, carbon dioxide and the importance of the oceans in world climate change, the transport of paniculate material to the interior of the ocean, primary production and iron limitation, colloids, and the preservation/destruction of organic matter in marine sediments.
Intermediate and advanced students with interests in chemical oceanography, marine geochemistry, marine biology and environmental chemistry will welcome this revised comprehensive text. Other students in the broader field of earth sciences will find it to be an essential reference source dealing with the interaction between the atmosphere, the ocean and the solid earth.
L'auteur - Roy Chester
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Liverpool
Sommaire
- The Global Journey: Material Sources
- The input of material to the ocean reservoir
- The transport of material to the oceans: the river pathway
- The transport of material to the oceans: the atmospheric pathway
- The transport of material to the oceans: the hydrothermal pathway
- The transport of material to the oceans: relative flux magnitudes
- The Global Journey: The Ocean Reservoir
- Descriptive oceanography: water-column parameters
- Dissolved gases in sea water
- Nutrients, organic carbon and the carbon cycle in sea water
- Particulate material in the oceans,
- Trace elements in the oceans,
- Down-column fluxes and the benthic boundary layer
- The Global Journey: Material Sinks
- Marine sediments
- Sediment interstitial waters and diagenesis
- The components of marine sediments
- Unscrambling the sediment-forming chemical signals
- The Global Journey: Synthesis
- Marine geochemistry: an overview
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Blackwell |
| Auteur(s) | Roy Chester |
| Parution | 24/12/2002 |
| Édition | 2eme édition |
| Nb. de pages | 506 |
| Format | 19 x 24,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 1253g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9781405101721 |
| ISBN13 | 978-1-4051-0172-1 |
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