Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon cycle / Steven Emerson, John Hedges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Steven (Steven R.)

Contributor:

Hedges, John, -2003.

Cambridge University Press.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical oceanography.

Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 453 pages 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) : illustrations (some color)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2008]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The principles of chemical oceanography provide insight into the processes regulating the marine carbon cycle. These topics are essential to understanding the role of the ocean in regulating the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere and climate on both human and geologic time scales.

Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle provides both a background in chemical oceanography and a description of how chemical elements in seawater and ocean sediments can be used as tracers of physical, biological, chemical, and geological processes in the ocean. The book begins with a description of ocean circulation and biological processes, and then moves on to discuss the chemicals that are dissolved in seawater. Subsequent chapters focus on why the ocean has the chemistry that it does, rather than on details of what is there. 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.

Developed by two well-known professors of oceanography, Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle is an ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduates in oceanography, environmental chemistry, geochemistry, and earth science. It is also a valuable reference for researchers in oceanography.

Contents:

Oceanography background : dissolved chemicals, circulation and biology in the sea

Geochemical mass balance : dissolved chemical inflow and outflow from the ocean

Thermodynamics background

Carbonate chemistry

Stable and radioactive isotopes

Life processes in the ocean

Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology

Marine organic geochemistry

Molecular diffusion and reaction rates

Gases and air-water exchange

The global carbon cycle : interactions between the atmosphere and ocean

Chemical reactions in marine sediments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Emerson, Steven (Steven R.). Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon cycle.

ISBN:

9780511649875

0511649878

9780511398551

0511398557

9780511402418

0511402414

9780511404160

0511404166

9786612390272

6612390271

Publisher Number:

99958954446

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.