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Focuses on the ocean's role in the global biogeochemical cycling of selected elements and the impact of humans on the transport of these elements. Among the topics covered are the chemical composition of seawater from the perspectives of elemental speciation and the impact of solutes on water's physical behavior; biogeochemical phenomena which control accumulation and preservation of marine sediments; marine chemistry of radioactive and stable isotopes; seawater pollution. Contains many examples as well as steady-state models to aid readers in understanding this relatively young, growing and complex science.

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• Partial table of contents
• The Physical Chemistry Of Seawater
• The Crustal-Ocean Factory
• The Waters of the Sea
• Salinity as a Conservative Tracer
• Gas Solubility and Exchange Across the Air-Sea Interface
• The Redox Chemistry Of Seawater
• The Importance of Oxygen
• Vertical Segregation of the Biolimiting Elements
• Horizontal Segregation of the Biolimiting Elements
• Trace Metals in Seawater
• The Chemistry Of Marine Sediments
• Classification of Sediments
• Calcite, Alkalinity, and the pH of Seawater
• Biogenic Silica
• Iron-Manganese Nodules and Other Hydrogenous Minerals
• Organic Biogeochemistry
• The Production and Destruction of Organic Compounds in the Sea
• The Marine Nitrogen Cycle
• The Marine Carbon Cycle and the Carbon Dioxide Problem
• The Origin of Petroleum in the Marine Environment
• Isotope Geochemistry
• Measuring Rates and Dates: The Use of Radioisotopes in the Study of Marine Processes
• Reading the Sedimentary Record: The Use of Stable Isotopes in the Study of Paleoceanography
• Marine Pollution
• The Fate of Pollutants in the Coastal Ocean
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Index