Geochemistry

Francis Albarède is Professor of Geochemistry at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has held visiting professorships at universities in the USA, Australia and Japan. He has been President of the European Association of Geochemistry, Chief Editor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters and the Journal of Geophysical Research. He has received numerous awards, including the Norman Bowen Award of the American Geophysical Union, the Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Union of Geosciences, and the Goldschmidt Award of the Geochemical Society. He is also author of Introduction to Geochemical Modelling (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

• Foreword to the English edition; Foreword to the French edition; Introduction; 1. The properties of elements; 2. Mass conservation and elemental fractionation; 3. Fractionation of stable isotopes; 4. Geochronology and radiogenic tracers; 5. Element transport; 6. Geochemical systems; 7. The chemistry of natural waters; 8. Biogeochemistry; 9. Environments; 10. Mineral reactions; 11. The solid Earth; 12. The geochemical variability of magmas; 13. The Earth in the Solar System; 14. The element barn; Appendix A. Composition of the major geological units; Appendix B. The mixing equation for ratios; Appendix C. A refresher on thermodynamics; Appendix D. The geological time scale; Appendix E. An overview of analytical methods; Appendix F. Physical and geophysical constants; Appendix G. Some equations relative to residence time; Index.

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