Geochemistry: An Introduction The Exercises / Геохимия: Введение. Задания

These exercises are designed to illustrate my book Geochemistry: An Introduction published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. The reader will find a range of focus from low to hightemperature geochemistry and cosmochemistry, but with the constant drive to tease the reader with problems that are essential to the field. I emphasized exercises on the very same data used for major scientific breakthroughs (e.g., the age of the Earth). As the book is targeting a broad readership, the level of mathematical difficulty may occasionally exceed what a geology major is used to be confronted with, but never what he or she had been exposed to in classes of elementary calculus. The solutions have not been made available, so teachers can use this material for tests. They may eventually be posted at a later stage. I welcome requests for help on specific exercises at albarede@ens-lyon.fr. In principle, all the exercises have been fully worked out, but I will be grateful to anyone signaling errors and typos. The reader should be aware of a number of typos in the first printing of the book itself. They will be corrected in a near future, but for the time being they are provided as an Appendix to this supplement.