Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle
Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle
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USDThe principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes regulating the marine carbon cycle. The text offers a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how chemical elements in seawater and ocean sediments are used as tracers of physical, biological, chemical and geological processes in the ocean. The first seven chapters present basic topics of thermodynamics, isotope systematics and carbonate chemistry, and explain the influence of life on ocean chemistry and how it has evolved in the recent (glacial-interglacial) past. This is followed by topics essential to understanding the carbon cycle, including organic geochemistry, air-sea gas exchange, diffusion and reaction kinetics, the marine and atmosphere carbon cycle and diagenesis in marine sediments. Figures are available to download from www.cambridge.org/9780521833134. Ideal as a textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduates in oceanography, environmental chemistry, geochemistry and earth science and a valuable reference for researchers in oceanography.
- Provides a thorough background to chemical oceanography, as well as coverage of contemporary topics such as the marine carbon cycle
- Explains why the ocean is as it is by describing the chemical processes
- Written by authors specialising in inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry, the text provides balanced coverage of both fields
Reviews & endorsements
"...an ideal accompanying text for my courses in marine cycling of elements for M. Sc. students in biology and for graduate students from various disciplines. It could be seen as a travel guide to a country with a quite diverse landscape of basic concepts and a rapidly evolving society of new observations and interpretations. A travel guide has to cover many different topics on a limited number of pages...[the authors] manage this without compromising the usefulness of this book. ...They review contradicting interpretations openly stating their opinions and highlight many open questions, which will keep the next generations of researchers busy. I will certainly use this book and recommend it to my students and colleagues." - Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Quarterly Review of Biology
"The text is a solid introduction to the concepts, models, equations, and techniques governing the field of marine carbon chemistry and carbon cycling. ...Recommended." - B. Ransom, CHOICE
"...This book will make an excellent primary text for an upper level or graduate chemical oceanography course as well as an excellent reference for the advanced enthusiast. ... The careful presentation of important oceanographic 'problems' interspersed with the necessary review of pure chemistry, biology, and earth science makes this book appropriate for a very broad audience. It is a much-needed addition to the tools for teaching chemical oceanography at both the undergraduate and graduate levels."
- Oceanography
Product details
May 2008Adobe eBook Reader
9780511402418
0 pages
0kg
196 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 63 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Introduction to Chemical Oceanography:
- 1. Oceanography background
- 2. Geochemical mass balance
- 3. Thermodynamics background
- 4. Carbonate chemistry
- 5. Stable and radioactive isotopes
- 6. Life processes in the ocean
- 7. Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology
- Part II. Advanced Topics in Marine Geochemistry:
- 8. Marine organic geochemistry
- 9. Molecular diffusion and reaction rates
- 10. Gases and air – water exchange
- 11. The global carbon cycle
- 12. Chemical reactions in marine sediments
- References
- Index.
