Organic Geochemistry: Principles and Applications by Roger E. Summons (auth.), Michael H. Engel, Stephen A. Macko

By Roger E. Summons (auth.), Michael H. Engel, Stephen A. Macko (eds.)

As this can be the 1st basic textbook for the sector released in over two decades, the editors have taken nice care to ensure insurance is complete. Diagenesis of natural subject, kerogens, exploration for fossil fuels, and plenty of different topics are mentioned intimately to supply college and scholars with an intensive creation to natural geochemistry.

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See Berner, 1989, and references therein). In summary, biogeochemical cycles are redox processes whereby chemical elements in the Earth's crust are transferred between various living and nonliving reservoirs. Exchanges between reservoirs are mediated by living organisms, principally microbes, and by inorganic processes such as precipitation of minerals, chemical weathering, physical erosion, and oceanic and atmospheric circulation. Energy, originally from sunlight and trapped as a consequence of photosynthetic carbon fixation, is stored in organic carbon.

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