Kinetics of Geochemical Processes: 8 (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 8) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939950081 ISBN 13: 9780939950089

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2018

Synopsis

Volume 8 of Reviews in Mineralogy treats a Short Course in Kinetics, which brings together the fundamentals needed to explain field observations using kinetic data. It is hoped that this book may serve, not only as a reference for researchers dealing with the rates of geochemical processes, but also as a text in courses on geochemical kinetics. The book is organized with a rough temperature gradient in mind, i.e. low temperature kinetics at the beginning and igneous kinetics at the end. However, the topics in each chapter are general enough that they can be applied often to any geochemical domain: sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous. The theory of kinetics operates at two complementary levels: the phenomenological and the atomistic. The former relies on macroscopic variables (e.g. temperature or concentrations) to describe the rates of reactions or the rates of transport; the latter relates the rates to the basic forces operating between the particular atomic or molecular species of any system. This book deals with both descriptions of the kinetics of geochemical processes.

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About the Author

Anthonio C. Lasaga, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA and R. James Kirkpatrick, Urbana, Illinois, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939950081
• ISBN 13: 9780939950089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410
• Editor: Kirkpatrick