Volume 9. Environmental Geochemistry

Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Professor and Director, Stable Isotope Laboratory
University of Toronto
Department of Geology
Earth Sciences Centre
22 Russell Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1
Canada
E-mail: bslollar@chem.utoronto.ca

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Volume 9 focuses on natural and anthropogenic environmental contaminants and their implications for human health and the environment. Environmental impacts on soils, groundwater, freshwater, the oceans and atmosphere are examined in the context of both inorganic geochemistry (metals, metalloids, radioactive compounds, mineral dusts, dissolved salts, acidification) and organic geochemistry (halogenated and non-halogenated hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, pesticides). Issues of risk, toxicity and exposure assessment; contaminant fate and transport; remediation and disposal; and source identification are examined in this context.

Introduction: Barbara Sherwood Lollar
1. Groundwater and Air Contamination: Risk, Toxicity, Exposure Assessment, Policy and Regulation: Richard J. Watts, Amy L. Teel
2. Arsenic and Selenium: Jane A. Plant, David G. Kinniburgh, Pauline L. Smedley, Fiona M. Fordyce, Ben A. Klinck
3. Heavy Metals in the Environment - Historical Trends: Edward Callender
4. Geochemistry of Mercury in the Environment: William F. Fitzgerald, Carl H. Lamborg
5. The Geochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage: David W. Blowes, Carol J. Ptacek, John L. Jambor, Christopher G. Weisener
6. Environmental Geochemistry of Radioactive Contamination: Malcolm D. Siegel, Charles Bryan
7. The Medical Geochemistry of Minerals, Dusts, Soils, and Other Earth Materials: Geoffrey S. Plumlee, Thomas L. Ziegler
8. Worldwide Eutrophication of Water Bodies: Causes, Concerns, Controls: Ellie E. Prepas, Théo J.V. Charette
9. Salinization and Saline Environments: Avner Vengosh
10. Acid Deposition and Acid Rain: Stephen A. Norton, Josef Veselı
11. Tropospheric Ozone and Photochemical Smog: Sanford Sillman
12. Volatile Fuel Hydrocarbons and MTBE in the Environment: Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Arthur L. Baehr
13. High-Molecular Weight Petrogenic and Pyrogenic Hydrocarbons in Aquatic Environments: Teofilo A. Abrajano, Vincent O'Malley, Beizhan Yan
14. Biogeochemistry of Halogenated Hydrocarbons: Peter Adriaens, Cyndee L. Gruden, Michael L. McCormick
15. The Geochemistry of Pesticides: Jack E. Barbash
16. The Geochemistry of Waste Disposal Facilities in Groundwater: Poul L. Bjerg, Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen, Peter Kjeldsen, Thomas H. Christensen, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli