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

About the editor

Final contents of this volume

The oceanic record is central to monitoring and interpreting past climate change. Because the oceans are such a large carbon reservoir, fluctuation in atmospheric C0₂, and hence global temperature, are intimately linked to ocean composition. The factors that control past ocean chemistry are complex, and multi-proxy methods are the key to understanding them. My main research at present is to proxy seawater composition using the metal and isotopic contents of the carbonate shells of marine microfossils: planktonic and benthic foraminifera and to evaluate factors such as dissolution that influence carbonate chemistry. I am also interested in long-term records using bulk carbonates and ocean geochemical processes in general such as seawater composition and fluid flow through oceanic crust.