Chester / Jickells Marine Geochemistry

3. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-34909-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 436 Seiten, E-Book

Marine Geochemistry offers a fully comprehensive andintegrated treatment of the chemistry of the oceans, theirsediments and biota. The first edition of the book received strongcritical acclaim and was described as 'a standard text foryears to come.' This third edition of MarineGeochemistry has been written at a time when the role of theoceans in the Earth System is becoming increasingly apparent.
Following the successful format adopted previously, thisnew edition treats the oceans as a unified entity, and addressesthe question 'how do the oceans work as a chemicalsystem?' To address this question, the text hasbeen updated to cover recent advances in our understanding oftopics such as the carbon chemistry of the oceans, nutrient cyclingand its effect on marine chemistry, the acidification of sea water,and the role of the oceans in climate change. In addition, theimportance of shelf seas in oceanic cycles has been re-evaluated inthe light of new research.
Marine Geochemistry offers both undergraduate andgraduate students and research workers an integrated approach toone of the most important reservoirs in the Earth System.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/chester/marinegeochemistry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chester, Roy

Jickells, Tim D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 pathway11
4 The transport of material to the oceans: the atmosphericpathway 52
5 The transport of material to the oceans: the hydrothermalpathway 83
6 The transport of material to the oceans: relative fl uxmagnitudes 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 inseawater 163
10 Particulate material in the oceans 208
11 Trace elements in the oceans 223
12 Down-column fl uxes 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
Colour plate pages fall between pp. 216 and 217.

Über Autor(innen)

Roy Chester recently retired from his post as theProudman Professor of Oceanography in what was then the Departmentof Earth Sciences at the University of Liverpool. During his careerhe wrote over 140 scientific publications, and in 1999 was awardedthe Hans Pettersson Bronze Medal by the Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences. 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 150publications. He has been based at the University of East Angliafor more than 25 years and before that worked in Bermuda andScotland. His main research interests are in atmospheric inputs tothe oceans and coastal nutrient cycling and his field work hasincluded tropical, temperate and polar environments. He was awardedthe Challenger medal in 2006.