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Essentials of Geochemistry
List Price: $124.95
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Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Author: John V. Walther
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2005-01-31
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Label: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Number Of Pages: 704
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Editorial Review:
Essentials of Geochemistry provides readers with a solid understanding of the fundamentals and approaches for doing modern geochemical analysis, including thermodynamic and kinetic modeling. Dr. Walther's text uses a unique "concepts of chemical equilibrium" approach, which considers the chemical reactions that occur, and offers both an environmental and quantitative focus to introduce students to the basic chemical principles important for studying the earth. This timely, accessible text features several examples and end-of-chapter problems designed to maximize students' comprehension of the rapidly advancing field of geochemistry.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 
Inefficient and ineffective.  2006-08-23
My prof. utilized this text for the first time last semester, and assumed it would be a good text. My background was Chem I, Chem II, Organic Chem, and Quantitative Analysis. I and a classmate with a similar background both found this text to be ineffective and inefficient. For example, one must page to Chapter 5 before finding a periodic table; every chemistry text I've seen thus far includes one on the opening pages. The treatment of atomic orbital energies was the worst I've ever seen - what introductory texts handle with a few well-chosen diagrams was written out into a page of excruciating text (p 146-147). Equations were given, but it was not always readily clear what each symbol stood for; examples were nearly non-existant. I was so excited about this course and I'm just grateful that the instructor was of much higher quality than the text.
Not very helpful.  2005-12-08
This is not a very helpful text to anyone interested in aqueous geochemistry. One thing to consider before purchasing this text...Do you have a background in this material? If you do, then it might prove useful (i.e. professors and professionals). If not, then consider another text (i.e. students...I really don't think anyone will read a geochem text for fun). If you are a student and this is the required text, then buy another used text (see below) or checkout another text from the local/campus library to assist you. You will not find any thoroughly solved examples in this text. The so-called examples that are presented are not very helpful. Examples would have been great and considering the size of the text, one wonders why they were not included.
Students: checkout Drever or Langmuir or the old classic by Garrels and Christ. If you are new to this material, I would recommend Drever then follow up with Garrels.
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