Chemical oceanography and the marine carbon cycle /
"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."...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "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. Figures from the book (including full-color versions) are available for download at www.cambridge.org/9780521833134"--Jacket. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 453 pages [8] pages of color plates) : illustrations (some color) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780511649875 0511649878 9780511398551 0511398557 9780511402418 0511402414 9780511404160 0511404166 9780511793202 0511793200 9780521540643 052154064X 1107086000 9781107086005 1107174767 9781107174764 0511399561 9780511399565 0511566859 9780511566851 |