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Title An introduction to environmental chemistry / J.E. Andrews ... [and others]
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2004

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Description xxi, 296 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental chemist's toolbox -- 3. The atmosphere -- 4. The chemistry of continental solids -- 5. The chemistry of continental waters -- 6. The oceans -- 7. Global change
Summary "The second edition is fully revised and expanded to provide a concise but thorough introduction to the subject in its widest sense. The book retains an emphasis on describing how natural geochemical processes operate over a variety of scales in time and space, and how the effects of human perturbations can be measured. Topics range from familiar global issues such as atmospheric pollution and its effect on global warming and ozone destruction, the link between chemistry and productivity in the oceans, through contamination of soils by synthetic organic chemicals, to the microbiological processes that cause pollution of drinking water in deltas." "The book contains sections and information boxes that explain the basic chemistry underpinning the subjects covered. These boxes will help students with little or no previous chemical background to enter this fascinating subject."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Includes tables
"First published 1996 by Blackwell Science Ltd"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Geochemistry.
Environmental chemistry.
Environmental geochemistry.
Author Andrews, J. E. (Julian E.)
LC no. 2003002757
ISBN 0632059052 paperback
Other Titles Environmental chemistry