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The Geochemistry of Natural Waters: Surface and Groundwater Environments, Third Edition
James L Drever, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. 1997. 436 p. $76.00. ISBN 0-13-272790-0.
This book is intended as "a textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate classes in aqueous geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and groundwater chemistry." The 16 chapter headings present the scope of this book: The Hydrologic Cycle, Chemical Background, The Carbonate System and pH Control, Clay Minerals and Cation Exchange, Adsorption, Organic Compounds in Natural Waters, Redox Equilibria, Redox Conditions in Natural Waters, Heavy Metals and Metalloids, Stability Relationships and Silicate Equilibria, Kinetics, Weathering and Water Chemistry, Acid Water, Isotopes, Evaporation and Saline Waters, and Transport and Reaction Modeling. The theoretical framework for much of this book is equilibrium thermodynamics, the basic concepts of which are succinctly presented in the text. Except...