Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the elemental proxies for palaeoclimatic and
palaeoceanographic variability in marine sediments. Physical and biological processes …

This article provides an overview of the environmental patterns and dynamics of copper from
the perspective of issues that affect our ability to examine current human exposures. It …

The distributions of certain minor and trace elements in marine sediments should potentially
provide forensic tools for determining the redox conditions of the bottom waters at the time of …

Large volumes of produced water are generated and discharged to the coastal and ocean
waters worldwide from offshore oil and gas production facilities. There is concern that the …

Under oxic aqueous conditions, two-line ferrihydrite gradually transforms to more
thermodynamically stable and more crystalline phases, such as goethite and hematite. This …

It is clear from available data that the susceptibility of biological communities to trace
element contamination differs among aquatic environments. One important reason is that the …

The biogeochemical controls on metal behaviour in aqueous environments involve complex
linkages of biological, principally bacterially driven, and geochemical processes, which …

Adsorption of cadmium onto goethite has been inves-tigated as a function of both solution
concentration and temperature. The pH range over which adsorption oc-curred was shifted …

In order to gain a better understanding of biological and geochemical processes, sequential
extraction techniques are widely employed to obtain information about the so-called 'solid …

The partitioning (or sorption) of trace elements from aqueous solutions onto mineral surfaces
and natural organic matter (NOM) has played a major role in determining the trace element …