Modern geochemistry aims to provide an accurate description of geological processes, and a set of models and quantitative rules that help predict the evolution of geological systems. This work is an introduction to the mathematical methods of geochemical modeling, largely based on examples presented with full solutions. It shows how geochemical problems, dealing with mass balance, equilibrium, fractionation and dynamics and transport in the igneous, sedimentary and oceanic environments, can be reformulated in terms of equations. Its practical approach then leads to simple but efficient methods of solution. This book should help the motivated reader to overcome the formal difficulties of geochemical modeling, and bring state-of-the-art methods within reach of advanced students in geochemistry and geophysics, as well as in physics and chemistry.
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"A wide circle of geochemists...is likely to find the book a useful reference source of advanced mathematical techniques and their applications to a wide spectrum of problems...the book should earn the place it deserves within a reaching distance of a user's eye and arm..." Abraham Lerman, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
"A very useful personal book for professional geochemists and geophysicists." T.R. Blackburn, Choice
"This is an indespensible handbook for the research geochemist, and could serve as text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate geochemistry course." Donald J. De Paolo, Nature
"This book contains a wealth of good stuff, and I recommend it highly." David Archer, Journal of Geology
"A very useful personal book for professional geochemists and geophysicists." T.R. Blackburn, Choice
"This is an indespensible handbook for the research geochemist, and could serve as text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate geochemistry course." Donald J. De Paolo, Nature
"This book contains a wealth of good stuff, and I recommend it highly." David Archer, Journal of Geology
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Modern geochemistry aims to provide an accurate description of geological processes, and a set of models and quantitative rules that help predict the evolution of geological systems. This work is an introduction to the mathematical methods of geochemical modeling, largely based on examples presented with full solutions.
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The chemical evolution of geological reservoirs, such as the upper mantle, an oceanic basin, or magma chamber, results from the competition if two opposing kinds of processes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
percent clinopyroxene, residence time analysis, interacting reservoirs, melting equation, fractional melting, percent olivine, distillation equation, sample subspace, percent confidence ellipse, left nullspace, elemental signal, parent magma, elemental fractionation, melt concentrations, total inverse, fraction crystallized, compatible elements, mineral abundances, mixing equation, magmatic processes, residual melt, fractionation factors, molten zone, phase proportions, residual porosity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The chemical evolution of geological reservoirs, such as the upper mantle, an oceanic basin, or magma chamber, results from the competition if two opposing kinds of processes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
percent clinopyroxene, residence time analysis, interacting reservoirs, melting equation, fractional melting, percent olivine, distillation equation, sample subspace, percent confidence ellipse, left nullspace, elemental signal, parent magma, elemental fractionation, melt concentrations, total inverse, fraction crystallized, compatible elements, mineral abundances, mixing equation, magmatic processes, residual melt, fractionation factors, molten zone, phase proportions, residual porosity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Interpretation of Igneous Rocks by K. G. Cox in Back Matter
- Igneous Rocks (Rocks and Minerals) by Melissa Stewart in Back Matter
- Differential Equations (2nd Edition) by John Polking in Back Matter
- Complex Variables by M.R. Spiegel in Back Matter
- Modern Mathematical Statistics (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) by Edward J. Dudewicz in Back Matter
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- Geochemistry: An Introduction by Francis Albarède in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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