Book description
This book is intended to serve as a text for an introductory course in
geochemistry for undergraduate/graduate students with at least an
elementary-level background in earth sciences, chemistry, and
mathematics. The text, containing 83 tables and 181 figures, covers a
wide variety of topics - ranging from atomic structure to chemical and
isotopic equilibria to modern biogeochemical cycles - which are divided
into four interrelated parts: Crystal Chemistry; Chemical Reactions (and
biochemical reactions involving bacteria); Isotope Geochemistry
(radiogenic and stable isotopes); and The Earth Supersystem, which
includes discussions pertinent to the evolution of the solid Earth, the
atmosphere, and the hydrosphere.
In keeping with the modern trend in the field of geochemistry, the
book emphasizes computational techniques by developing appropriate
mathematical relations, solving a variety of problems to illustrate
application of the mathematical relations, and leaving a set of
questions at the end of each chapter to be solved by students.
However, so as not to interrupt the flow of the text, involved
chemical concepts and mathematical derivations are separated in the
form of boxes. Supplementary materials are packaged into ten
appendixes that include a standard-state (298. 15 K, 1 bar)
thermodynamic data table and a listing of answers to selected
chapter-end questions.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www. wiley.
com/go/misra/geochemistry.
Kula C. Misra is a Professor of Geology (Emeritus)
at the University of Tennessee where he has taught geochemistry,
economic geology, and environmental geology for more than 30 years.
He received a M. Tech degree in Applied Geology from the Indian
Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and, after working for about ten
years as a field geologist, a Ph. D. degree in Geology from the
University of Western Ontario (Canada). His research papers have been
published in several professional journals, and he is the author of
the textbook Understanding Mineral Deposits published in the year
2000. He is a member of several professional organizations and has
served as a consultant to corporations and government agencies on
subjects related to mineral deposits and environmental geochemistry.
