Marine Geochemistry (eBook)

Roy Chester, Tim D. Jickells (Autoren)

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2012 | 3. Auflage
436 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-34909-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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
Geochemistry has been written at a time when the role of the
oceans in the Earth System is becoming increasingly apparent.

Following the successful format adopted previously, this
new edition treats the oceans as a unified entity, and addresses
the question 'how do the oceans work as a chemical
system?' To address this question, the text has
been updated to cover recent advances in our understanding of
topics such as the carbon chemistry of the oceans, nutrient cycling
and its effect on marine chemistry, the acidification of sea water,
and the role of the oceans in climate change. In addition, the
importance of shelf seas in oceanic cycles has been re-evaluated in
the light of new research.

Marine Geochemistry offers both undergraduate and
graduate students and research workers an integrated approach to
one of the most important reservoirs in the Earth System.

Additional resources for this book can be found at: href="http://www.wiley.com/go/chester/marinegeochemistry">www.wiley.com/go/chester/marinegeochemistry.

Autor

Roy Chester recently retired from his post as the Proudman Professor of Oceanography in what was then the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Liverpool. During his career he wrote over 140 scientific publications, and in 1999 was awarded the Hans Pettersson Bronze Medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is also the author of 'Furnace of Creation, Cradle of Destruction - A journey to the birthplace of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis'. Tim Jickells is a marine biogeochemist with over 150 publications. He has been based at the University of East Anglia for more than 25 years and before that worked in Bermuda and Scotland. His main research interests are in atmospheric inputs to the oceans and coastal nutrient cycling and his field work has included tropical, temperate and polar environments. He was awarded the Challenger medal in 2006.

Inhalt

Preface to the Third Edition vii

1 Introduction 1

Part I The Global Journey: Material Sources 7

2 The input of material to the ocean reservoir 9

3 The transport of material to the oceans: the fluvial pathway 11

4 The transport of material to the oceans: the atmospheric pathway 52

5 The transport of material to the oceans: the hydrothermal pathway 83

6 The transport of material to the oceans: relative flux magnitudes 92

Part II The Global Journey: The Ocean Reservoir 125

7 Descriptive oceanography: water-column parameters 127

8 Air-sea gas exchange 154

9 Nutrients, oxygen, organic carbon and the carbon cycle in seawater 163

10 Particulate material in the oceans 208

11 Trace elements in the oceans 223

12 Down-column fluxes and the benthic boundary layer 253

Part III The Global Journey: Material Sinks 271

13 Marine sediments 273

14 Sediment interstitial waters and diagenesis 290

15 The components of marine sediments 321

16 Unscrambling the sediment-forming chemical signals 352

Part IV The Global Journey: Synthesis 389

17 Marine geochemistry: an overview 391

Index 405

Rezensionen

"The third edition of Marine Geochemistry is an invaluable
resource for a wide range of readers from undergraduates to
researchers, providing a concise up to date summary of the
interplay of chemical and biological factors that control ocean
cheamistry." (Journal of Geological Magazine, 1
August 2013

"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates
through professionals in marine sciences."
(Choice, 1 May 2013)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: earth sciences • Geochemie • Geochemie, Mineralogie • Geochemistry & Minerology • Geowissenschaften • Oceanography & Paleoceanography • Ozeanographie • Ozeanographie u. Paläozeanographie • Ozeanographie u. Paläozeanographie
• ISBN-10: 1-118-34909-1 / 1118349091
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-34909-0 / 9781118349090