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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction to chemical oceanography | |
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| Oceanography background: dissolved chemicals, circulation and biology in the sea | |
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| A chemical perspective | |
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| Constituents of seawater | |
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| Ocean circulation | |
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| Ocean biology | |
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| Geochemical mass balance: dissolved chemical inflow and outflow from the ocean | |
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| Mass balance between input from land and authigenic mineral formation | |
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| Reverse weathering | |
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| Hydrothermal circulation | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| An extremely brief review of rocks and minerals | |
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| The meaning of residence time | |
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| Thermodynamics background | |
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| The properties of water and ions | |
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| Ion-ion interactions and activity coefficients | |
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| Thermodynamic basics | |
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| Equilibrium constraints on chemical activities | |
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| Redox reaction basics | |
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| Carbonate Chemistry | |
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| Acids and bases in seawater | |
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| Carbonate equilibria: calculating the pH of seawater | |
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| Kinetics of CO[subscript 2] reactions in seawater | |
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| Processes that control the alkalinity and DIC of seawater | |
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| Carbonate system equilibrium equations in seawater | |
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| Equations for calculating the equilibrium constants of the carbonate and borate buffer system | |
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| Stable and radioactive isotopes | |
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| Stable isotopes | |
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| Radioactive isotopes | |
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| Relating K, [alpha], [delta], and [epsilon] in stable isotope terminology | |
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| Derivation of the Rayleigh distillation equation | |
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| Life processes in the ocean | |
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| A simple model of ocean circulation and biological processes | |
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| The euphotic zone | |
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| Biologically driven export from the euphotic zone | |
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| Respiration below the euphotic zone | |
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| Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | |
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| The marine sedimentary record: 0-800 ky | |
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| The ice core record: 0-800 ky | |
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| Abrupt (millennial-scale) climate change | |
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| Advanced topics in marine geochemistry | |
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| Marine organic geochemistry | |
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| The nature of organic matter | |
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| Methods of characterizing organic matter | |
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| Major organic carbon compounds as biomarkers | |
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| Dissolved organic matter in seawater | |
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| Molecular diffusion and reaction rates | |
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| Molecular diffusion | |
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| Reaction rates | |
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| Reaction rate catalysis | |
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| Gases and air-water exchange | |
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| Air-sea gas transfer models | |
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| Measurements of gas exchange rates in nature | |
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| Gas saturation in the oceans | |
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| Surface films and chemical reactions | |
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| The global carbon cycle: interactions between the atmosphere and ocean | |
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| The global carbon cycle | |
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| The biological and solubility pumps of the ocean | |
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| The fate of anthropogenic CO[subscript 2] in the ocean | |
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| Chemical reactions in marine sediments | |
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| Diagenesis and preservation of organic matter | |
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| Diagenesis and preservation of calcium carbonate | |
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| Diagenesis and preservation of silica | |
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| Diagenesis and preservation of metals | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Index | |