Introduction togeochemistry

The book is addressed to juniors and seniors, perhaps to an occasional sophomore-to students fresh from a year of chemistry and equipped with the geological background normally provided by courses in physical and historical geology and mineralogy. The plan of the book is to review, at a moderately advanced level, those topics from elementary geology to which chemical ideas may be usefully applied. Most chapters end with a list of questions. At the end of each chapter is also a list of books and articles, including those to which reference is made in the chapter ana few others intended as an introduction to current geochemical literature. Students should be cautioned that the book is more than its title implies, an introduction to an enormously complex subject. Material in the book should provide enough background to enable students to read contemporary geochemical literature with understanding and pleasure and to form judgments about the quality of geochemical work.