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- Cover
- Preface
- About the companion website
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1 INTRODUCTION
- 1.2 BEGINNINGS
- 1.3 GEOCHEMISTRY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- 1.4 THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
- 1.5 ELEMENTS, ATOMS, CRYSTALS, AND CHEMICAL BONDS: SOME CHEMICAL FUNDAMENTALS
- 1.6 A BRIEF LOOK AT THE EARTH
- 1.7 A LOOK AHEAD
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- NOTES
- Chapter 2: Energy, entropy, and fundamental thermodynamic concepts
- 2.1 THE THERMODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE
- 2.2 THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS AND EQUILIBRIUM
- 2.3 EQUATIONS OF STATE
- 2.4 TEMPERATURE, ABSOLUTE ZERO, AND THE ZEROTH LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
- 2.5 ENERGY AND THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
- 2.6 THE SECOND LAW AND ENTROPY
- 2.7 ENTHALPY
- 2.8 HEAT CAPACITY
- 2.9 THE THIRD LAW AND ABSOLUTE ENTROPY
- 2.10 CALCULATING ENTHALPY AND ENTROPY CHANGES
- 2.11 FREE ENERGY
- 2.12 THE MAXWELL RELATIONS*
- 2.13 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 3: Solutions and thermodynamics of multicomponent systems
- 3.1 INTRODUCTION
- 3.2 PHASE EQUILIBRIA
- 3.3 SOLUTIONS
- 3.4 CHEMICAL POTENTIAL
- 3.5 IDEAL SOLUTIONS
- 3.6 REAL SOLUTIONS
- 3.7 ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS
- 3.8 IDEAL SOLUTIONS IN CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES
- 3.9 EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS
- 3.10 PRACTICAL APPROACH TO ELECTROLYTE EQUILIBRIUM
- 3.11 OXIDATION AND REDUCTION
- 3.12 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 4: Applications of thermodynamics to the Earth
- 4.1 INTRODUCTION
- 4.2 ACTIVITIES IN NONIDEAL SOLID SOLUTIONS
- 4.3 EXSOLUTION PHENOMENA
- 4.4 THERMODYNAMICS AND PHASE DIAGRAMS
- 4.5 GEOTHERMOMETRY AND GEOBAROMETRY
- 4.6 THERMODYNAMIC MODELS OF MAGMAS
- 4.7 REPRISE: THERMODYNAMICS OF ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS
- 4.8 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 5: Kinetics: the pace of things
- 5.1 INTRODUCTION
- 5.2 REACTION KINETICS
- 5.3 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMICS
- 5.4 DIFFUSION
- 5.5 SURFACES, INTERFACES, AND INTERFACE PROCESSES
- 5.6 KINETICS OF DISSOLUTION
- 5.7 DIAGENESIS
- 5.8 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 6: Aquatic chemistry
- 6.1 INTRODUCTION
- 6.2 ACID–BASE REACTIONS
- 6.3 COMPLEXATION
- 6.4 DISSOLUTION AND PRECIPITATION REACTIONS
- 6.5 CLAYS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
- 6.6 MINERAL SURFACES AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH SOLUTIONS
- 6.7 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 7: Trace elements in igneous processes
- 7.1 INTRODUCTION
- 7.2 BEHAVIOR OF THE ELEMENTS
- 7.3 DISTRIBUTION OF TRACE ELEMENTS BETWEEN COEXISTING PHASES
- 7.4 FACTORS GOVERNING THE VALUE OF PARTITION COEFFICIENTS
- 7.5 CRYSTAL-FIELD EFFECTS
- 7.6 TRACE ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION DURING PARTIAL MELTING
- 7.7 TRACE ELEMENT DISTRIBUTION DURING CRYSTALLIZATION
- 7.8 SUMMARY OF TRACE ELEMENT VARIATIONS DURING MELTING AND CRYSTALLIZATION
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 8: Radiogenic isotope geochemistry
- 8.1 INTRODUCTION
- 8.2 PHYSICS OF THE NUCLEUS AND THE STRUCTURE OF NUCLEI
- 8.3 BASICS OF RADIOGENIC ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY
- 8.4 DECAY SYSTEMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
- 8.5 “EXTINCT” AND COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES
- 8.6 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 9: Stable isotope geochemistry
- 9.1 INTRODUCTION
- 9.2 THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
- 9.3 ISOTOPE GEOTHERMOMETRY
- 9.4 ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION IN THE HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM
- 9.5 ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
- 9.6 PALEOCLIMATOLOGY
- 9.7 HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS AND ORE DEPOSITS
- 9.8 MASS-INDEPENDENT SULFUR ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION AND THE RISE OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN
- 9.9 STABLE ISOTOPES IN THE MANTLE AND MAGMATIC SYSTEMS
- 9.10 NONTRADITIONAL STABLE ISOTOPES
- 9.11 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 10: The big picture: cosmochemistry
- 10.1 INTRODUCTION
- 10.2 IN THE BEGINNING … NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- 10.3 METEORITES: ESSENTIAL CLUES TO THE BEGINNING
- 10.4 TIME AND THE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- 10.5 ASTRONOMICAL AND THEORETICAL CONSTRAINTS ON SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION
- 10.6 BUILDING A HABITABLE SOLAR SYSTEM
- 10.7 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 11: Geochemistry of the solid Earth
- 11.1 INTRODUCTION
- 11.2 THE EARTH’S MANTLE
- 11.3 ESTIMATING MANTLE AND BULK EARTH COMPOSITION
- 11.4 THE EARTH’S CORE AND ITS COMPOSITION
- 11.5 MANTLE GEOCHEMICAL RESERVOIRS
- 11.6 THE CRUST
- 11.7 SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES
- 11.8 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 12: Organic geochemistry, the carbon cycle, and climate
- 12.1 INTRODUCTION
- 12.2 A BRIEF BIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
- 12.3 ORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND THEIR NOMENCLATURE
- 12.4 THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE: IMPORTANT BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
- 12.5 ORGANIC MATTER IN NATURAL WATERS AND SOILS
- 12.6 CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ORGANIC MOLECULES
- 12.7 SEDIMENTARY ORGANIC MATTER
- 12.8 PETROLEUM AND COAL FORMATION
- 12.9 THE CARBON CYCLE AND CLIMATE
- 12.10 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 13: The land surface: weathering, soils, and streams
- 13.1 INTRODUCTION
- 13.2 REDOX IN NATURAL WATERS
- 13.3 WEATHERING, SOILS, AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING
- 13.4 WEATHERING RATES
- 13.5 THE COMPOSITION OF RIVERS
- 13.6 CONTINENTAL SALINE WATERS
- 13.7 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 14: The ocean as a chemical system
- 14.1 INTRODUCTION
- 14.2 SOME BACKGROUND OCEANOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS
- 14.3 COMPOSITION OF SEAWATER
- 14.4 SOURCES AND SINKS OF DISSOLVED MATTER IN SEAWATER
- 14.5 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Chapter 15: Applied geochemistry
- 15.1 INTRODUCTION
- 15.2 MINERAL RESOURCES
- 15.3 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY
- 15.4 SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- PROBLEMS
- NOTES
- Appendix: Constants, units and conversions
- PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CONSTANTS
- THE EARTH
- SI UNITS AND CONVERSIONS
- SI PREFIXES
- Index
- LIST OF EXAMPLES
- End User License Agreement




