Studies in Analytical Geochemistry / Denis M. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Denis M., Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Analytical geochemistry.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Here is a collection of timely reports which review and assess the state of development of several branches of geochemistry. They serve as well to indicate the contemporary scope, technique, and philosophy of this field of scientific inquiry. Combining as they do both original work and a review of relevant background material they should appeal both to the specialist and to the interested layman. The papers which comprise this volume were presented at a symposium held as part of the programme of the Royal Society of Canada at McMaster University in 1962, and they were selected with a view to illustrating some of the principal fields of interest, some of the methods of inquiry, and both the limitations and the future potential of geochemical research, rather than to attempt a comprehensive treatment of all fields of geochemistry. All are concerned with analytical, inductive science, and as such are to be considered as classical or Goldschmidtian geochemistry. An interesting and provocative study in geochemical dialectics is the critical appraisal by K.K. Turekian of the contexts in which trace-element distribution studies can be of value in interpreting past environments or processes. H.G. Thode and R.N. Clayton have contributed a report on stable-isotope abundance variations in nature: President Thode continues his widely-known work in the mechanisms responsible for the fine structure of the natural distribution of sulphur, while Professor Clayton advocates extending the geothermometer, conceived by H.C. Urey for measuring past ocean temperatures, into the range of igneous and metamorphic conditions. Public Health officials as well as geochemists will be interested in the synopsis offered by M. Fleischer and W.O. Robinson of the geochemical distribution of fluorine in the United States. E.H.T. Whitten advocates the use of quantitative methods in interpreting granite terraces, using a powerful statistical approach. G.V. Middleton concludes with a general statement legitimizing the union of statistics and geochemistry, indicating sophisticated statistical procedures which, despite their established use in other inductive sciences, are only just becoming established in geochemistry.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

CONTENTS

Contributors

The Use of Trace-Element Geochemistry in Solving Geologic Problems / Turekian, Karl K.

Sulphur Isotope Geochemistry / Thode, H. G.

Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry : Thermometry of Metamorphic Rocks / Clayton, Robert N.

Some Problems of the Geochemistry of Fluorine / Robinson, W. O. / Fleischer, Michael

Application of Quantitative Methods in the Geochemical Study of Granite Massifs / Whitten, E. H. Timothy

Statistical Inference in Geochemistry / Middleton, Gerard V.

Notes:

"Papers presented at a symposium held ... June 6th, 1962, as part of the programme of Section III of the annual meetings of the Royal Society of Canada at McMaster University, Hamilton."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-8332-X

OCLC:

1129188717