Aquatic geochemical oceanography / James W. Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, James W., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical oceanography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (817 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

A comprehensive review of the quantitative study of the geochemistry of the ocean. It outlines the basic principles of aquatic chemistry, with instruction and tools to develop an in-depth understanding of the distribution of elements and compounds in the ocean and how they transform based on their fundamental chemical properties.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Overview of Ocean Distributions and Circulation

3 Mass Balance: The Cornerstone of Chemical Oceanography

4 Properties of Water and Seawater

5 Chemical Equilibrium

6 Activity Scales and Activity Corrections

7 Major components, salinity and density of seawater

8 Major Macronutrients

9 Marine Trace Element Biogeochemistry

10 Trace Element Distributions and Controlling Processes in the Ocean

11 Ocean Carbonate Chemistry: Reactions and Calculations

12 Ocean Carbonate Distributions

13 Gases and Gas Exchange

14 Oxidation-Reduction Reactions

15 Oxidation-Reduction (Redox) Environments

16 What Controls the Composition of River Waterand Seawater?: Equilibrium versus Kinetic Ocean

17 Global Ocean Cycles of Mg, Si, P, N, C, O2 and Fe

Appendix

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 27, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-185324-0

0-19-254782-8

OCLC:

1521185012