This note covers all aspects of molecular biosignatures, such as their pathways of lipid biosynthesis, the distribution patterns of lipid biosynthetic pathways with regard to phylogeny and physiology, isotopic contents, occurrence in modern organisms and environments, diagenetic pathways, analytical techniques and the occurrence of molecular fossils through the geological record.
Author(s): Prof. Roger Summons, Dr. Florence Schubotz, Dr. Julio Sepulveda and Dr. Paula Welander
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This note covers the following topics: Geochemical Fundamentals, Low Temperature Geochemistry: The hydrologic cycle and sedimentary systems, High Temperature and Planetary Geochemistry.
Author(s): Ken Rubin
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The central objective of this lecture in a deeper understanding of mantle interaction. Topics include: history of ocean basins, formation of MORBs and OIB's, mantle geochemistry, mantle heterogeneity; slab recycling, mantle models.
Author(s): Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Siebel
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This note explains the following topics: acid or base and electrochemical concepts, aqueous geochemistry and solid-water interactions with an emphasis on ground water, chemical weathering, mineral thermodynamics and redox (Eh-pH) diagrams and their applications to soil and mineral stability and ground water chemistry, modeling, environmental geochemistry and isotopes applied to groundwaters.
Author(s): B. Saini-Eidukat
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This note looks at the oceans and is an introduction to marine chemistry. The sub-topics of this lecture includes: ocean dynamic topography, ocean temperature and salinity; oceanic circulation; thermohaline circulation, carbon cycle, composition of sea water; variations of sea water through time, hot vents and cold seeps, ferromanganese nodules, gas hydrates, radiogenic isotopes in the oceans, U-disequilibrium dating and sedimentation rates.
Author(s): B. Saini-Eidukat
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This book brings together the knowledge from a variety of topics within the field of geochemistry. The audience for this book consists of a multitude of scientists such as physicists, geologists, technologists, petroleum engineers, volcanologists, geochemists and government agencies. The topics represented facilitate as establishing a starting point for new ideas and further contributions.
Author(s): Dionisios Panagiotaras
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This lecture note explains the following topics: Equilibrium, Free Energy, Calorimetry, Speciation, Activity, Stability Diagrams, Acid-base geochemistry,Carbonate Geochemistry, Redox Geochemistry, Nernst and Eh-pH diagrams,Microbes and energy,Sorption, Kinetics, Mixing and mineral chemistry, Phase relations, Geothermobarometry, Ore Geochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry and Radioisotope Geochemistry.
Author(s): Greg Druschel
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This note describes the following topics: Physics of the Nucleus and Radioactive Decay, Nucleosynthesis, Geochronology, Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry, Cosmogenic Isotopes in Geochronology, Fission Track Dating, Isotope Cosmochemistry, Stable Isotope Geochemistry.
Author(s): W. M. Whit
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This book brings together the knowledge from a variety of topics within the field of geochemistry. The audience for this book consists of a multitude of scientists such as physicists, geologists, technologists, petroleum engineers, volcanologists, geochemists and government agencies. The topics represented facilitate as establishing a starting point for new ideas and further contributions. Major topics covered includes: Geochemical and Sedimentation History of Neogene Lacustrine Sediments, Arsenic Geochemistry in Groundwater System, Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Alteration in Volcanic Rocks, Behaviors of Mantle Fluid During Mineralizing Processes and Potential and Geochemical Characteristics of Geothermal Resources in Eastern Macedonia.
Author(s): Dionisios Panagiotaras
512Pages
