Contents ...................................................... iii
Introduction .................................................... v
Contributors .................................................. vii
1 Volcanic Degassing ........................................... 1
C. OPPENHEIMER, University of Cambridge, UK
2 Hydrothermal Processes ...................................... 45
C.R. GERMAN, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton,
UK K.L. VON DAMM, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH,
USA
3 The Contemporary Carbon Cycle ............................... 87
R.A. HOUGHTON, Woods Hole Research Center, MA, USA
4 The Global Sulfur Cycle .................................... 129
P. BRIMBLECOMBE, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
5 The History of Planetary Degassing as Recorded by Noble
Gases ...................................................... 167
D. PORCELLI, University of Oxford, UK
К.K. TUREKIAN, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
6 Natural Weathering Rates of Silicate Minerals .............. 205
A.F. WHITE, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA
7 Soil Formation ............................................. 241
R. AMUNDSON, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
8 Global Occurrence of Major Elements in Rivers .............. 277
M. MEYBECK, University of Paris VI, CNRS, Paris, France
9 Trace Elements in River Waters ............................. 293
J. GAILLARDET, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris,
France
J. VIERS and B. DUPRÉ, Laboratoire des Mécanismes et
Transferts en Géologie, Toulouse, France
10 The Geologic History of the Carbon Cycle ................... 341
E.T. SUNDQUIST and K. VISSER, US Geological Survey, Woods
Hole, MA, USA
11 Organic Matter in the Contemporary Ocean ................... 389
Т.I. EGLINTON and D.J. REPETA, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, MA, USA
12 The Biological Pump ....................................... 425
C.L. DE LA ROCHA, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and
Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
13 The Biological Pump in the Past ........................... 453
D.M. SIGMAN, Princeton University, NJ, USA
G.H. HAUG, Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam, Germany
14 The Oceanic CaCO3 Cycle ................................... 491
W.S. BROECKER, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
15 The Global Oxygen Cycle ................................... 511
S.T. PETSCH, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA,
USA
16 The Global Nitrogen Cycle ................................. 551
J.N. GALLOWAY, University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
VA, USA
17 Evolution of Sedimentary Rocks ............................ 579
J. VEIZER, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany and
University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
F.T. MACKENZIE, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
18 Generation of Mobile Components during Subduction of
Oceanic Crust ............................................. 617
M.W. SCHMIDT, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
S. POLI, Universita di Milano, Italy
Appendix 1 ................................................ 643
Appendix 2 ................................................ 644
Appendix 3 ................................................ 648
Appendix 4 ................................................ 649
Index ........................................................ 651
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