Geochemistry

An Introduction to Organic Geochemistry explores the fate of organic matter of all types, biogenic and man-made, in the Earth System.

Drawn from a very wide range of sources the statistics in this handbook cover 46 minerals.

The last fifteen years have witnessed an amazing development of petrology.

Introduces the fundamental principles of applied Earth science needed for engineering practice, with case studies, exercises, and online solutions.

By the end of the 1960s, it became acutely apparent that major problems existed with the quality of both surface and subsurface waters on a world-wide scale.

An concise overview of iron formations as archives of diverse palaeoenvironmental information on early Earth history.

This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground called permafrost.

Soils form a unique and irreplaceable essential resource for all terrestrial organisms, including man.

Geographic information, spatial analysis and geospatial technologies play an important role in understanding changes in planetary health and in defining the drivers contributing to different health outcomes both locally and globally.

This book reviews groundwater quality and its major global contaminants, and collects the latest advances in the analysis, remediation, risk assessment, and hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the USA.

Magnatism is the only true endogenic process for generating new material on the Earth's surface.

Calcium isotopes can be used as a geochemical tracer to quantify rates of carbonate diagenesis in marine sedimentary systems.

Geocomputation with R is for people who want to analyze, visualize and model geographic data with open source software.

Spatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology with R, like its First Edition, explores the interface between environmental epidemiology and spatio-temporal modeling.

Using theory, applications, and examples of inferences, Niche Modeling: Predictions from Statistical Distributions demonstrates how to conduct and evaluate niche modeling projects in any area of application.

Statistical Geoinformatics for Human Environment Interface presents two paradigms for studying both space and interface with regard to human/environment: localization and multiple indicators.

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Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants.

Summarizes major temporal trends evident in Proterozoic biomarker distributions and relate to changing marine communities and environments.

The goal of this book is to make some underutilized but potentially very useful methods in experimental design and analysis available to ecologists, and to encourage better use of standard statistical techniques.

During the past three decades, urban groundwater has emerged as one of the worlds most pressing issues.

This revised, new edition retains its class-tested coverage of how metals behave in water while updating and expanding information about metals processing methods.

Over 10 years have passed since RANKAMA'S second book, Progress in Isotope Geology, surveyed the literature on isotope abundance deter- minations.

This easy-to-understand introduction emphasizes the areas of probability theory and statistics that are important in environmental monitoring, data analysis, research, environmental field surveys, and environmental decision making.

Painting a complete picture of the history of the Everglades, The Geology of the Everglades and Adjacent Areas brings together theperspectives of various geoscientists to provides an overview of the geology, paleontology, and paleoceanography of the Everglades region.

The Legacy of Carbon Dioxide: Past and Present Impacts covers the truly varied roles carbon dioxide has played and continues to play in the character of our planet.

Modern geochemistry possesses not only the vigor of geology and chemistry but also the rigor of mathematics.

This book provides a common theoretical and practical basis to the multifaceted nature of magma mixing.

Knowledge of the basic interactions that take place between geological materials and different substances is the first step in understanding the effects of adsorption and other interfacial processes on the quality of rocks and soils, and on driving these processes towards a beneficial or neutral result.

Today's engineering and geoscience student needs to know more than how to design a new or remedial project or facility.

Global View of Engineering Geology and the Environment contains selected papers from the International Symposium and 9th Asian Regional Conference of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG, Beijing, China, 24-25 September 2013).

This book offers a comprehensive view of the valuable uranium ores and analytical electron microscopy methods, including electron microdiffraction principles, an essential technique for studying uranous minerals.

This book presents the geological evolution of the Baltic Sea area since its inception, i.

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources contains the contributions presented at International Forum-Contest of Young Researchers 2018 (St.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 17th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete (ICAAR), held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on May 19-24, 2024.

Structural Analysis of Polymeric Composite Materials, Second Edition introduces the mechanics of composite materials and structures and combines classical lamination theory with macromechanical failure principles for prediction and optimization of composite structural performance.

Destructive plate margin magmagenesis is one of the most intensely studied and widely debated topics in the earth sciences at present.

Mullite is the most important crystalline phase in fired products belonging to the Al2O3-SiO2 mullite system, such as whiteware articles used in daily life (e.

This book comprehensively discusses the methods and practices for evaluating geochemical processes in aquifer groundwater.

The lingo of soil science is a language unto itself.

This book is devoted to the biogeochemical environment of the White Sea, an inland sea in the Northwestern region of Russia.

The book provides a unique analysis of current air pollution in Germany by correlating results from chemical transport modelling and accumulation monitoring by moss.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge related to concerns about methylmercury (MeHg) in the soil-rice system.

This extensively updated new edition of the widely acclaimed Treatise on Geochemistry has increased its coverage beyond the wide range of geochemical subject areas in the first edition, with five new volumes which include: the history of the atmosphere, geochemistry of mineral deposits, archaeology and anthropology, organic geochemistry and analytical geochemistry.

A concise introduction to the mineralogy and petrology of igneous and metamorphic rocks for all Earth Science students.

This volume comprises the proceedings of a three-day meeting held at the Royal Society, London, UK on 22,23,24 April 1987.

This textbook and reference outlines the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, emphasizing applications in geochemistry.

>The rich fossil record of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains of the United States is a gold mine for interested scientists.