Ebook: Geochemistry

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of geochemistry. The book first lays out the geochemical toolbox: the basic principles and techniques of modern geochemistry, beginning with a review of thermodynamics and kinetics as they apply to the Earth and its environs.;About the companion website -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Energy, entropy and fundamental thermodynamic concepts -- Chapter 3. Solutions and thermodynamics of multicomponent systems -- Chapter 4. Applications of thermodynamics to the Earth -- Chapter 5. Kinetics: the pace of things -- Chapter 6. Aquatic chemistry -- Chapter 7. Trace elements in igneous processes -- Chapter 8. Radiogenic isotope geochemistry -- Chapter 9. Stable isotope geochemistry -- Chapter 10. The big picture: cosmochemistry -- Chapter 11. Geochemistry of the solid earth -- Chapter 12. Organic geochemistry, the carbon cycle, and climate -- Appendix.