Environmental Chemistry from a Nutrient Cycle Perspective (Senior or Graduate Level)

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Butcher, S.S., R.J. Charlson, G.H. Orians, and G.V. Wolfe

1992 Academic Press, NY

ISBN 0 12 147685 5

Table of content

1. Introduction

2. The Origin and Early Evolution of the Earth

3. Evolution and the Biosphere

4. Modeling Biogeochemical Cycles

5. Equilibrium, Rate, and Natural Systems

6. Tectonic Processes, Continental Freeboard, and the Rate-Controlling Step for Continental Denudation

7. Pedosphere

8. Sediments: Their Interaction with Biogeochemical Cycles through

9. Formation and Diagenesis

10. The Oceans

11. The Atmosphere

12. The Global Carbon Cycle

13. The Nitrogen Cycle

14. The Sulfur Cycle

15. The Phosphorus Cycle

16. Trace Metals

17. Human Modification of Global Biogeochemical Cycles