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With the holding of the Fourth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry in Canberra, Australia, the field of biogeochemistry can perhaps be said to have come of age. It is the purpose of this article to provide a brief overview of this burgeoning field, with the aim of indicating some of the general principles and practical applications.
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Brock, T.D. (1980). Environmental Biogeochemistry. In: Trudinger, P.A., Walter, M.R., Ralph, B.J. (eds) Biogeochemistry of Ancient and Modern Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48739-2_10
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