Main Title |
Carbon in the Geobiosphere - Earth's Outer Shell - [electronic resource] / |
Type |
EBOOK |
Author |
Mackenzie, Fred T.
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Other Authors |
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Publisher |
Springer Netherlands, |
Year Published |
2006 |
ISBN |
9781402042386 |
Subjects |
Life sciences ;
Oceanography ;
Biochemistry ;
Environmental sciences
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Internet Access |
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Collation |
XXI, 402p. online resource. |
Notes |
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only |
Contents Notes |
Brief Overview of Carbon on Earth -- Earth's Volatile Beginnings -- Heat Balance of the Atmosphere and Carbon Dioxide -- Mineralogy, Chemistry, and Reaction Kinetics of the Major Carbonate Phases -- Carbon Dioxide in Natural Waters -- Isotopic Fractionation of Carbon: Inorganic and Biological Processes -- Sedimentary Rock Record and Oceanic and Atmospheric Carbon -- Weathering and Consumption of CO2 -- Carbon in the Oceanic Coastal Margin -- Natural Global Carbon Cycle through Time -- The Carbon Cycle in the Anthropocene. Carbon and carbon dioxide always played an important role in the geobiosphere that is part of the Earth's outer shell and surface environment. The book's eleven chapters cover the fundamentals of the biogeochemical behavior of carbon near the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, minerals, waters, air-sea exchange, and inorganic and biological processes fractionating the carbon isotopes, and its role in the evolution of inorganic and biogenic sediments, ocean water, the coupling to nutrient nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, and the future of the carbon cycle in the Anthropocene. This book is mainly a reference text for Earth and environmental scientists; it presents an overview of the origins and behavior of the carbon cycle and atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the human effects on them. The book can also be used for a one-semester course at an intermediate to advanced level addressing the behavior of the carbon and related cycles. |
Place Published |
Dordrecht |
Corporate Au Added Ent |
SpringerLink (Online service) |
Title Ser Add Ent |
TOPICS IN GEOBIOLOGY ; 25 |
Host Item Entry |
Springer eBooks |
PUB Date Free Form |
2006 |
Series Title Untraced |
TOPICS IN GEOBIOLOGY ; 25 |
BIB Level |
m |
Medium |
computer |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
online resource |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20131217200001 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
SPRINGER |
Type |
EBOOK |
OCLC Rec Leader |
02932nam a22004455i 45 |