The Benthic Boundary Layer

Transport Processes and Biogeochemistry

Bernard P. Boudreau, Bo Barker Jorgensen

404 pages, parution le 19/12/2001

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Résumé

The benthic boundary layer is the zone of water and sediment immediately adjacent to the bottom of a sea, lake, or river. This zone is of considerable interest to biologists, geochemists, sedimentologists, and engineers. This book of original chapters edited by Professors Boudreau and Jorgensen, both leading researchers in the field, provides an up-to-date, definitive text/reference on measurements, techniques, and models fortransport and biochemical processes in the benthic boundary layer. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of a selected field, with illustrated examples from the authors' own work.

Contents

Contributors
Introduction
Physics of flow above the sediment-water interface
Fine-scale flow measurements inthe benthic boundary layer
Suspended particle transport in benthic boundary layers
Solute transport above the sediment-water interface
The fine structure and properties of the sediment surface
Porewater flow in permeable sediments
Biogeochemical microsensors for boundary layer studies
Diagenesis and sediment-water exchange
In situ sampling in the benthic boundary layer
Transport and reactions in the bioirrigated zone
Constraining organic matter cycling with benthic fluxes
Macroscopic animals and plants in benthic flows
Life in the diffuse boundary layer
Interfacial microbial mats and biofilms
List of common symbols
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Bernard P. Boudreau, Bo Barker Jorgensen
Parution	19/12/2001
Nb. de pages	404
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	800g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780195118810
ISBN13	978-0-19-511881-0