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Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
Introduction to chemical oceanography | p. 1 |
Oceanography background: dissolved chemicals, circulation and biology in the sea | p. 3 |
A chemical perspective | p. 3 |
Constituents of seawater | p. 5 |
Ocean circulation | p. 17 |
Ocean biology | p. 24 |
Geochemical mass balance: dissolved chemical inflow and outflow from the ocean | p. 33 |
Mass balance between input from land and authigenic mineral formation | p. 34 |
Reverse weathering | p. 43 |
Hydrothermal circulation | p. 46 |
Summary and conclusions | p. 57 |
An extremely brief review of rocks and minerals | p. 58 |
The meaning of residence time | p. 59 |
Thermodynamics background | p. 63 |
The properties of water and ions | p. 64 |
Ion-ion interactions and activity coefficients | p. 70 |
Thermodynamic basics | p. 73 |
Equilibrium constraints on chemical activities | p. 77 |
Redox reaction basics | p. 89 |
Carbonate Chemistry | p. 101 |
Acids and bases in seawater | p. 103 |
Carbonate equilibria: calculating the pH of seawater | p. 112 |
Kinetics of CO[subscript 2] reactions in seawater | p. 116 |
Processes that control the alkalinity and DIC of seawater | p. 118 |
Carbonate system equilibrium equations in seawater | p. 127 |
Equations for calculating the equilibrium constants of the carbonate and borate buffer system | p. 130 |
Stable and radioactive isotopes | p. 134 |
Stable isotopes | p. 137 |
Radioactive isotopes | p. 153 |
Relating K, [alpha], [delta], and [epsilon] in stable isotope terminology | p. 169 |
Derivation of the Rayleigh distillation equation | p. 170 |
Life processes in the ocean | p. 173 |
A simple model of ocean circulation and biological processes | p. 174 |
The euphotic zone | p. 179 |
Biologically driven export from the euphotic zone | p. 188 |
Respiration below the euphotic zone | p. 203 |
Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | p. 219 |
The marine sedimentary record: 0-800 ky | p. 220 |
The ice core record: 0-800 ky | p. 243 |
Abrupt (millennial-scale) climate change | p. 249 |
Advanced topics in marine geochemistry | p. 259 |
Marine organic geochemistry | p. 261 |
The nature of organic matter | p. 264 |
Methods of characterizing organic matter | p. 266 |
Major organic carbon compounds as biomarkers | p. 277 |
Dissolved organic matter in seawater | p. 294 |
Molecular diffusion and reaction rates | p. 303 |
Molecular diffusion | p. 304 |
Reaction rates | p. 310 |
Reaction rate catalysis | p. 326 |
Gases and air-water exchange | p. 340 |
Air-sea gas transfer models | p. 343 |
Measurements of gas exchange rates in nature | p. 350 |
Gas saturation in the oceans | p. 357 |
Surface films and chemical reactions | p. 366 |
The global carbon cycle: interactions between the atmosphere and ocean | p. 372 |
The global carbon cycle | p. 373 |
The biological and solubility pumps of the ocean | p. 376 |
The fate of anthropogenic CO[subscript 2] in the ocean | p. 384 |
Chemical reactions in marine sediments | p. 404 |
Diagenesis and preservation of organic matter | p. 406 |
Diagenesis and preservation of calcium carbonate | p. 419 |
Diagenesis and preservation of silica | p. 428 |
Diagenesis and preservation of metals | p. 433 |
Conclusions | p. 439 |
Index | p. 445 |
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