Chemical Fundamentals of Geology and Environmental Geoscience by Robin Gill (Wiley Desktop Editions)-Wiley-Blackwell (2015)
Chemical principles are fundamental to a large area of geological science, and the student who reads for a degree in geology without knowing any basic chemistry is handicapped from the start. This book has been written with such students in mind, but I hope it will also provide a helpful refresher course and useful background reading in ‘geo-relevant’ chemistry for all earth science students who believe in understanding rather than merely memorizing.
The purpose of this book is to introduce the average Earth science student to chemical principles that are fundamental to the sciences of geology and environmental geoscience. There can be no more fundamental place to begin than with the topic of energy (Box 1.1), which lies at the heart of both geology and chemistry. Energy plays a role in every geological process, from the atom-by-atom growth of a mineral crystal to the elevation and subsequent erosion of entire mountain chains. Consideration of energy provides an incisive intellectual tool for analysing the workings of the complex geological world, making it possible to extract from this complexity a few simple underlying principles upon which an orderly understanding of Earth processes can be based. Many natural processes involve a flow of energy. The spontaneous melting of an ice crystal, for example.
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