Geochemical Kinetics / Геохимическая кинетика

Geochemical Kinetics is a textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. This book is based on my courses on geochemical kinetics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the principles and theories of geochemical kinetics. It is hoped that students and scientists in geochemical kinetics will use this book as a standard reference.Geochemical kinetics is a spin-off from chemical kinetics, and may be viewed as the application of chemical kinetics to geology, as it has been by many previous authors. Just as geochemistry has distinguished itself from chemistry, in the last 40 years geochemical kinetics has begun to distinguish it from chemical kinetics in at least three aspects. First, whereas chemical kineticists are only interested in forward problems, geochemical kineticists are also interested in inverse problems, and have developed theories of geochronology, thermochronology, and geospeedometry to infer age and thermal history of rocks. Secondly, while chemical kineticists work almost exclusively on isothermal reaction kinetics, geochemical kineticists have advanced methods to treat nonisothermal kinetics, such as reaction and diffusion during cooling. Thirdly, while chemical kineticists focus on homogeneous reactions, geochemical kineticists mostly investigate heterogeneous reactions. <...>