Sulfidic Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks

Informationen zum Autor David Rickard has been one of the world’s leading sulfide experts for over 40 years. He was a pioneer in geomicrobiology. He started his career as a senior undergraduate at Imperial College, London, with a thesis on pyrite framboids. He was awarded a £10,000 grant by the UK scientific research council in 1965 to set up a geomicrobiology laboratory in Imperial College and completed his PhD thesis in 1968 on the Chemistry and Microbiology of Iron Sulphide Formation. His work with the Swedish Natural Science Research Council was particularly focussed on geochemical kinetics and constituted some of the earliest contributions to this subject. At the same time he worked on Economic Geology and founded the largest ore geology research group of the time in Stockholm. He was appointed to a Chair in Cardiff University in 1983 and has continued to contribute to sulfide geochemistry and ore geology. He has over 300 publications including over 150 research journal papers and two edited books. He published his first paper in Nature in 1968. He was Chief Editor of Chemical Geology and Mineralium Deposita. His latest interests have involved characterizing nanoparticulate metal sulfides and their interactions with biochemical molecules, including nucleic acid polymers. He has received a number of awards including Fellowships of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry and Honorary Membership of the Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. His multidisciplinary contributions have been recognized by his election to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Society of Biology and the Geological Society. Klappentext This book provides an up-to-date! integrated review of the geochemistry and biogeochemistry of sulfur in sediments and sedimentary rocks. The (geo)chemistry of sulfur! iron and iron sulfides in sedimentary systems is reviewed. Sulfur microbiology and the microbial ecology of sulfidic sediments are discussed. Sulfur and iron stable isotope biochemistry are addressed against the background of recent advances with respect to sedimentary and microbial systems. Environmental aspects of the present sedimentary sulfur cycle are considered with reference to the development of euxinia and global anoxic events. The biogeochemistry of ancient sulfur-rich sediments and the evolution of the sedimentary sulfur system are discussed against the background of the evolution of the Earth surface environment. The evolution of the sulfur biome and its impact of the early development of life on Earth are discussed. The subject of this book is of interest to scientists in a number of disciplines! including geology! microbiology! chemistry and environmental science. The sulfur system is important to environmental scientists considering the present and future effects of pollution and anoxia. The insight that the sedimentary sulfur system provides as to the nature and evolution of the Early Earth is a major focus of current earth science research. Shales are the most abundant and widespread sedimentary rocks! and they characteristically contain significant concentrations of iron sulfides. The development of the sulfur system - particularly the characteristics of ocean anoxia over the last 200 Ma - is used to inform about the future fate of the Earth surface system as well as to understand the past. The biochemistry and microbiology of the sulfur system are key to understanding microbial ecology and the evolution of life on Earth. Zusammenfassung Suitable for scientists in a number of disciplines! including geology! microbiology! chemistry and environmental science! this title deals with sedimentary sulfides which are the abundant authigenic minerals in sediments. It gives emphasis to the biogeochemistry that plays such a central role in the formation of sedimentary sulfides. ...

List of contents

1. Introduction to sedimentary sulfide biogeochemistry2. Sulfur chemistry in aqueous solutions3. Sedimentary iron biogeochemistry4. Aqueous metal sulfide chemistry: complexes and clusters5. Metastable sulfides6. Pyrite formation 7. Adsorption on iron sulfides8. Microbial sulfide generation in sediments9. Microbial sulfide oxidation in sediments10. Microbial ecology 11. Sulfur stable isotope geochemistry12. Iron isotope fractionation in sedimentary sulfides13. Euxinic systems14. Sulfur in sediments15. Black shales16. Evolution of the sulfur biome17. The global biogeochemical sulfur cycle18. Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: David Rickard, David (School of Earth Rickard, Rickard David
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2012
• EAN: 9780444529893
• ISBN: 978-0-444-52989-3
• No. of pages: 816
• Series: Developments in Sedimentology; Developments in Sedimentology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Soil science, sedimentology, Sedimentology and pedology