Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 9: Environmental Geochemistry

About this book

Volume 9 focuses on natural and anthropogenic environmental contaminants and their implications for human health and the environment. Environmental impacts on soils, groundwater, freshwater, the oceans and atmosphere are examined in the context of both inorganic geochemistry (metals, metalloids, radioactive compounds, mineral dusts, dissolved salts, acidification) and organic geochemistry (halogenated and non-halogenated hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, fuel oxygenates, pesticides, nutrients). Issues of risk, toxicity and exposure assessment; contaminant fate and transport; remediation and disposal; and source identification are examined in this context.

Reprinted individual volume from the acclaimed Treatise on Geochemistry 10 Volume Set

Contents

1. Risk, toxicity and exposure assessment. 2. The metalloids - arsenic and selenium. 3. Heavy metals in the environment. 4. Geochemistry of Hg in the environment. 5. Acid mine drainage. 6. Geochemistry of radioactive environmental contamination. 7. Geochemistry of industrial mineral hazards. 8. Nutrients and eutrophication. 9. Salinization. 10. Acid deposition and acidification. 11. Photochemical smog and tropospheric ozone. 12. Hydrocarbon fuels and fuel oxygenates. 13. Non-halogenated hydrocarbons and other petroleum distillates. 14. Halogenated hydrocarbons. 15. Pesticides. 16. The geochemistry of waste disposal facilities. 17. Geochemical fingerprint.

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