Overview
- Presents applications of basic theories (thermodynamics, kinetics, mass balance model, coupling model) to interpret the compositional variations in water-rock interaction
- Provides box models applying to the short-term and long-term atmospheric CO2 and climate changes
- Discusses relationships between box model and mass transfer mechanism and also between humans and other subsystems
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The Earth system consists of subsystems that include the atmosphere, hydrosphere (water), geosphere (rocks, minerals), biosphere, and humans. In order to understand these subsystems and their interactions, it is essential to clarify the mass transfer mechanism, geochemical cycle, and influence of human activity on the natural environment. This book presents fundamental theories (thermodynamics, kinetics, mass balance model, coupling models such as the kinetics-fluid flow model, the box model, and others) concerning mechanisms in weathering, formation of hydrothermal ore deposits, hydrothermal alteration, formation of groundwater quality, and the seawater system. The interaction between fluids (atmosphere, water) and solid phases (rocks, minerals) occurs both in low-temperature and also in high-temperature systems. This book considers the complex low-temperature cycle with the high-temperature cycle, a combination that has not been dealt with in previous books concerning Earth systems. Humanity is a small part of the biosphere; however, human activities greatly influence Earth’s surface environments (atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, soils, rocks). Thus, the influences of humans on other subsystems, particularly mass transfer in the deep underground geologic environment composed of host rocks and groundwater, are discussed in relation to high-level nuclear waste geologic disposal and CO2 underground sequestration—topics that have not been included in other books on environmental science.
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Book Title: Environmental and Resources Geochemistry of Earth System
Book Subtitle: Mass Transfer Mechanism, Geochemical Cycle and the Influence of Human Activity
Authors: Naotatsu Shikazono
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54904-8
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54903-1Published: 22 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54904-8Published: 05 January 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 125 illustrations in colour
Topics: Earth System Sciences, Geochemistry, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Environmental Science and Engineering
Industry Sectors: Aerospace