Marine Geochemistry (Paperback, 3 ed)

Preface to the third edition vii

1 Introduction 1

Part I The Global Journey: Material Sources 7

2 The input of material to the ocean reservoir 9

3 The transport of material to the oceans: the fluvial pathway 11

4 The transport of material to the oceans: the atmospheric pathway 52

5 The transport of material to the oceans: the hydrothermal pathway 83

6 The transport of material to the oceans: relative fl ux magnitudes 92

Part II The Global Journey: The Ocean Reservoir 125

7 Descriptive oceanography: water-column parameters 127

8 Air–sea gas exchange 154

9 Nutrients oxygen organic carbon and the carbon cycle in seawater 163

10 Particulate material in the oceans 208

11 Trace elements in the oceans 223

12 Down-column fl uxes and the benthic boundary layer 253

Part III The Global Journey: Material Sinks 271

13 Marine sediments 273

14 Sediment interstitial waters and diagenesis 290

15 The components of marine sediments 321

16 Unscrambling the sediment-forming chemical signals 352

Part IV The Global Journey: Synthesis 389

17 Marine geochemistry: an overview 391

Index 405

Colour plate pages fall between pp. 216 and 217.