Geochemistry and the Biosphere
Essays
Published on 2. January 2018
480 pages
978-0-907791-64-5 (ISBN)
Description
The classic works by the renowned Russian scientist who published the first edition of The Biosphere in 1926. This unabridged translation is made from the 1944 edition and translated from the Russian alongside his other most important book Essays on Geochemistry. In these two volumes, Vernadsky details humanity's impact on the living systems of the planet and concludes with his vision of the noösphere, a sphere of human intelligence.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Editor's foreword
- Introduction by Academician Alexander Yanshin
- essays on geochemistry
- the history of geochemistry
- 1 Geochemistry as a Science of the Twentieth Century
- 2 Forms of Existence of Chemical Elements
- chemical elements in the earth's crust
- their forms of existence and classification
- 1 Geochemistry Classification of Chemical Elements
- 2 Forms of Existence of Chemical Elements
- 3 Geochemistry of Iodine and Bromine
- 4 Living Organisms in the Earth's Crust
- 5 The History of Free Oxygen
- 6 Living Matter
- 7 Matter in a State of Dispersion
- carbon and living matter in the earth's crust
- 1 Carbon in Different Geospheres and Its Role
- 2 The Stability of Carbon Minerals
- 3 Dispersion of Carbides
- 4 Primary Carbides
- 5 Petroleum and Its Formation
- 6 The Primary Geochemical Carbon Cycle
- 7 Earth's Gases and Living Matter
- 8 Living Matter and the Geochemical History of Carbon
- 9 Spreading of Living Matter in the Biosphere and the Geochemical Importance of the Proliferation of Organisms
- 10 The Quantity of Carbon in Living Matter
- 11 The Constancy of the Mass of Living Matter
- 12 Chemical Structure of the Earth's Crust
- 13 Organisms: Concentrators of Chemical Elements
- 14 Carbonic Acid as the Main Source of Carbon in Living Matter
- 15 The Dynamic Balance of the Carbonic Acid in the Atmosphere
- 16 The Cycle of Life
- 17 Incomplete Reversibility of the Cycle of Life
- 18 The Geological Cycle of Calcium Carbonate
- 19 Redi's Principle
- 20 The Energy of Living Matter and Carnot's Principle
- 21 The Free Energy of the Biosphere and Living Matter
- 22 Geochemical Activities of Man
- the biosphere
- the biosphere in the cosmos
- The Biosphere in Its Cosmic Environment
- The Biosphere as the Reason For the Transformation of Cosmic Energy
- An Empirical Generalization and a Hypothesis
- Living Matter in the Biosphere
- Propagation of Organisms and Geochemical Energy of Living Matter
- The Green Living Matter
- Some Remarks on Living Matter in the Mechanism of the Biosphere
- the domain of life
- The Biosphere
- the Earth's Envelope
- The Living Matter of the First and the Second Order in the Biosphere
- The Limits of Life
- The Boundaries of Life in the Biosphere
- Life in the Hydrosphere
- Geochemical Cycle of Vital Aggregations and Living Films of the Hydrosphere
- The Living Matter of the Land
- The Interconnection of the Hydrosphere and the Terrestrial Vital Films
- a few words about the noösphere
