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- Covers the basic and most relevant principles of geochemistry, explaining them mostly in understandable terms
- Provides plenty of real-world and specific geological examples easily understood and integrated by geologists
- Focuses on the geochemical behavior of the elements (with a simple and short excursion into isotopes)
Part of the book series: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment (STEGE)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is a marked departure from typical introductory geochemistry books available: It provides a simple, straightforward, applied, and down-to-earth no-nonsense introduction to geochemistry. It is for the undergraduate students who are introduced to the subject for the first time, but also for practicing geologists who do not need the heavy-duty theory, but some clear, simple, and useful practical tips and pointers.
This book, written from the point of view of a practicing geologist, introduces the fundamental and most relevant principles of geochemistry, explaining them whenever possible in plain terms. Crucially, this textbook covers – in a single volume! – practical and useful topics that other introductory geochemistry books ignore, such as sampling and sample treatment, analytical geochemistry, data treatment and geostatistics, classification and discrimination diagrams, geochemical exploration, and environmental geochemistry. The main strengths of this book are thebreadth of useful and practical topics, the straightforward and approachable way in which it is written, the numerous real-world and specific geological examples, and the exercises and review questions (using real-world data and providing on-line answers). It is therefore easily understood by the beginner geochemist or any geologist who desires to use geochemistry in their daily work.
Authors and Affiliations
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Brandon University, Brandon, Canada
Paul Alexandre
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Geochemistry
Authors: Paul Alexandre
Series Title: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72453-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72452-8Published: 25 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72455-9Published: 26 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72453-5Published: 24 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2510-1307
Series E-ISSN: 2510-1315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 115
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour