Volume 6. The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry

"I strongly recommend it for students in oceanography who want to improve their knowledge of a given field, to confirmed researchers who wish to extend their knowledge outside of their specialised field, for teachers who need to refresh their lesson contents ...and for anybody who has basic scientific formation and wants to enter into the magical and complex world of ocean geochemistry." (Catherine Jeandel PhD, Research Director at CNRS, LEGOS, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France)

Henry Elderfield
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3EQ
United Kingdom
E-mail: he101@esc.cam.ac.uk

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Final contents
About the editor

The oceans are vitally important to an understanding of how the Earth works as an integrated system because its chemical composition records transfer of elements through the Earth's geochemical reservoirs as well as defining how physical, biological and chemical processes combine to influence issues as diverse at climate change and the capacity of the oceans to remove toxic metals. Much modern marine geochemistry aims to link and integrate studies of the modern oceans with work using proxies to define how ocean chemistry and the ocean/atmosphere system has changed through time on a number of different timescales. A special focus in such work is the carbon cycle and its link to changes in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Volume 6 covers all the important topics needed for such an integrated approach, ranging from the contemporary ocean composition, transport processes in the ocean, paleoclimatology and paleoceanography from marine deposits, to the evolution of seawater composition.

Introduction to Ocean Geochemistry: Henry Elderfield
1. Physico-chemical Controls on Seawater: Frank J. Millero
2. Controls of Trace Metals in Seawater: Kenneth W. Bruland, Maeve C. Lohan
3. Gases in Seawater: Philip D. Nightingale, Peter S. Liss
4. The Biological Pump: Christina L. de la Rocha
5. Marine Bioinorganic Chemistry: The Role of Trace Metals in the Oceanic Cycles of Major Nutrients: François M.M. Morel, Allen J. Milligan, Mak A. Saito
6. Organic Matter in the Contemporary Ocean: Timothy I. Eglinton, Daniel J. Repeta
7. Hydrothermal Processes: Christopher R. German, Karen L. Von Damm
8. Tracers of Ocean Mixing: William J. Jenkins
9. Chemical Tracers of Particle Transport: Robert F. Anderson
10. Biological Fluxes in the Ocean and Atmospheric pCO₂: David Archer
11. Sediment Diagenesis Benthic Flux: Steven R. Emerson, John I. Hedges
12. Geochronometry of Marine Deposits: Karl K. Turekian, Michael P. Bacon
13. Geochemical Evidence for Quaternary Sea-Level Changes: R. Lawrence Edwards, Kirsten B. Cutler, Hai Cheng, Christina D. Gallup
14. Elemental and Isotopic Proxies of Past Ocean Temperatures: David W. Lea
15. Alkenone Paleotemperature Determinations: Timothy D. Herbert
16. Tracers of Past Ocean Circulation: Jean Lynch-Steiglitz
17. Long-Lived Isotopic Tracers in Oceanography, Paleoceanography and Ice Sheet Dynamics: Steven L. Goldstein, Sidney R. Hemming
18. The Biological Pump in the Past: Daniel M. Sigman, Gerald H. Haug
19. The Oceanic CaCO₃ Cycle: Wallace S. Broecker
20. Records of Cenozoic Ocean Chemistry: Gregory E. Ravizza, James C. Zachos
21. The Geologic History of Seawater: Heinrich D. Holland