Kinetics of Geochemical Processes
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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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- Intro
- Copyright
- Additional Copies
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- TABLE of CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. RATE LAWS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
- CHAPTER 2. DYNAMIC TREATMENT OF GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES: GLOBAL KINETICS
- CHAPTER 3. KINETICS OF WEATHERING AND DIAGENESIS
- CHAPTER 4. TRANSITION STATE THEORY
- CHAPTER 5. IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS IN PETROLOGY
- CHAPTER 6. DIFFUSION IN ELECTROLYTE MIXTURES
- CHAPTER 7. THE ATOMISTIC BASIS OF KINETICS: DEFECTS IN MINERALS
- CHAPTER 8. KINETICS OF CRYSTALLIZATION OF IGNEOUS ROCKS
