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Ottonellos text represents the broadest coverage of geochemistry yet published, and is the only book in the field to discuss interionic static potentials in crystals, thermodynamic properties based on lattice vibrations, and crystalline defects and their effect on stability relations of minerals. Includes nearly two hundred tables, three hundred figures, and an abundance of examples.
List of contents
I: Geochemistry of Crystal Phases1: Elemental Properties and Crystal Chemistry
2: Concepts of Chemical Thermodynamics
3: Thermochemistry of Crystalline Solids
4: Some Concepts of Defect Chemistry
5: Silicates
II: Geochemistry of Silicate Melts6: Thermochemistry of Silicate Melts
7: Introduction to Petrogenetic Systems
III: Geochemistry of Fluids8: Geochemistry of Aqueous Phases
9: Geochemistry of Gaseous Phases
IV: Methods10: Trace Element Geochemistry
11: Isotope Geochemistry
Appendix 1: Constants, Units and Conversion Factors
Appendix 2: Review of Mathematics
Summary
Principles of Geochemistry offers broader coverage of the field than is currently available in other texts, including an in-depth discussion of the geochemistry of the solid state and trace element geochemistry.
