This book incorporates twenty contributions on diverse aspects of the environmental geochemistry in tropical and sub-tropical environments, drawing together extensive original research not readily available elsewhere. Coverage includes intercontinental comparisons drawn on paleoclimatology, environmental impacts of mining and geochemistry of continetal shelf sediments. The book opens with a discussion of the points that arose during the closing session, summarised by Dr. Most of the processes that occur in temperate environments turn out to be completely different in the tropics.
This can already be seen in Chapter 3, where estimates of radionuclide transfer factors reach values considerably greater than in temperate areas. The utilisation of variables measured in temperate environments for modelling of the tropics can result in completely erroneous conclusions and, worse, inefficient remediation solutions.
This book aims to explore basic principles, concepts and applications of geochemistry. Topics include chemical weathering, impacts on living beings and water, geochemical cycles, oxidation and redox reactions in geochemistry, isotopes, analytical techniques, medicinal, inorganic, marine, atmospheric, and environmental applications, as well as case studies. This book helps in understanding the chemical composition of the earth and its applications.
It also includes beneficial effects, bottlenecks, solutions, and future directions in geochemistry. Skip to content. Environmental Geochemistry. Environmental Geochemistry Book Review:. Principles of Environmental Geochemistry. Author : G. Principles of Environmental Geochemistry Book Review:. Author : Heinrich D. Sherwood Lollar,Karl K. Author : J. Concepts and Applications in Environmental Geochemistry.
Environmental Geochemistry and Health. Author : S. Environmental Geochemistry and Health Book Review:. Environmental Geochemistry of Potentially Toxic Metals. Author : Frederic R. Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry. Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry Book Review:. Applied Environmental Geochemistry. Applied Environmental Geochemistry Book Review:. Environmental Geochemistry in Health and Disease. Author : Helen L. Cannon,Howard C.
Environmental and Low Temperature Geochemistry. Metallurgical Slags. In fact, rapid and reliable analytical methods for determining trace element abundances have only recently become available, and it is to be expected that important new information.
This book offers thorough, up-to-date coverage of controls on the chemical quality of surface and subsurface waters, both pristine and polluted, with an emphasis on problem-solving and practical applications. The text is appropriate for courses in aqueous geochemistry or aquatic chemistry. Desirable prerequisites are introductory courses or the equivalent in thermodynamics and solution chemistry, and in physical geology including mineralogy. Principles of environmental geochemistry; Regional geochemical mapping and its application to environmental studies; Analytical methods in applied environmental geochemistry; Soils and plants and the geochemical environment; The chemical forms of trace metals in soils; Geochemistry and water quality; Microbial mediation of biogeochemical cycling of metals; Geochemistry applied to agriculture; Geochemistry and man: health and disease, essential elements, elements possibly essential, those toxic and others; Geomedicine in Scandinavia; Assessment of metal pollution in soils; Assessment of metal pollution in rivers and.
It provides the reader with the essentials of concentration, speciation and reactivity of elements in soils, waters, sediments and air, drawing attention to both thermodynamic and kinetic controls.
This book is a definitive reference on the environmental geochemistry and resource potential of metallurgical slags. Applications of radioactive and stable isotopes have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth and near-earth surface processes. The utility of the isotopes are ever-increasing and our sole focus is to bring out the applications of these isotopes as tracers and chronometers to a wider audience so that they can be used as powerful tools to solve environmental problems.
New developments in this field remain mostly in peer-reviewed journal articles and hence our goal is to synthesize these findings for easy. Home » Books » Environmental Geochemistry. Author : G. Author : Heinrich D. Sherwood Lollar,Karl K. Author : J. Author : S. The field of environmental geochemistry combines these approaches to address questions about the natural environment and anthropogenic effects on it. Eby provides students with a solid foundation in basic aqueous geochemistry before discussing the important role carbon compounds, isotopes, and minerals play in environmental issues.
He then guides students through how these concepts apply to problems facing our atmosphere, continental lands, and oceans. Rather than broadly discussing a variety of environmental problems, the author focuses on principles throughout the text, leading students to understand processes and how knowledge of those processes can be applied to environmental problem solving.
Many problems have no single correct answer, illustrating the analytical nature of solving real-world environmental problems. The book will include chapters which will span from the role of geochemistry in the environment in general to the specific investigations on site characterization dealing with sampling strategy, analytical procedures and problems. Specific articles will deal with health problems related to environment pollution, waste disposal, data base management, and illustration of specific case histories for characterization and remediation of brownfield sites.
Few books on statistical data analysis in the natural sciences are written at a level that a non-statistician will easily understand. This is a book written in colloquial language, avoiding mathematical formulae as much as possible, trying to explain statistical methods using examples and graphics instead.
To use the book efficiently, readers should have some computer experience. The book starts with the simplest of statistical concepts and carries readers forward to a deeper and more extensive understanding of the use of statistics in environmental sciences.
The book concerns the application of statistical and other computer methods to the management, analysis and display of spatial data. These data are characterised by including locations geographic coordinates , which leads to the necessity of using maps to display the data and the results of the statistical methods.
Although the book uses examples from applied geochemistry, and a large geochemical survey in particular, the principles and ideas equally well apply to other natural sciences, e. The book is unique because it supplies direct access to software solutions based on R, the Open Source version of the S-language for statistics for applied environmental statistics.
For all graphics and tables presented in the book, the R-scripts are provided in the form of executable R-scripts. Statistical Data Analysis Explained: Applied Environmental Statistics with R provides, on an accompanying website, the software to undertake all the procedures discussed, and the data employed for their description in the book. It provides the reader with the essentials of concentration, speciation and reactivity of elements in soils, waters, sediments and air, drawing attention to both thermodynamic and kinetic controls.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www. Environmental Geochemistry: Site Characterization, Data Analysis and Case Histories, Second Edition, reviews the role of geochemistry in the environment and details state-of-the-art applications of these principles in the field, specifically in pollution and remediation situations.
Chapters cover both philosophy and procedures, as well as applications, in an array of issues in environmental geochemistry including health problems related to environment pollution, waste disposal and data base management. This updated edition also includes illustrations of specific case histories of site characterization and remediation of brownfield sites.
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