Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Analysis of Rates of Geochemical Reactions

   • Susan L. Brantley, Christine F. Conrad

   Pages 1-37

3. Transition State Theory and Molecular Orbital Calculations Applied to Rates and Reaction Mechanisms in Geochemical Kinetics

   • James D. Kubicki

   Pages 39-72

4. The Mineral-Water Interface

   • A. Liittge, R. S. Arvidson

   Pages 73-107

5. Kinetics of Sorption—Desorption

   • Jon Chorover, Mark L. Brusseau

   Pages 109-149

6. Kinetics of Mineral Dissolution

   • Susan L. Brantley

   Pages 151-210

7. Data Fitting Techniques with Applications to Mineral Dissolution Kinetics

   • Joel Z. Bandstra, Susan L. Brantley

   Pages 211-257

8. Nucleation, Growth, and Aggregation of Mineral Phases: Mechanisms and Kinetic Controls

   • Liane G. Benning, Glenn A. Waychunas

   Pages 259-333

9. Microbiological Controls on Geochemical Kinetics 1: Fundamentals and Case Study on Microbial Fe(III) Oxide Reduction

   • Eric E. Roden

   Pages 335-415

10. Microbiological Controls on Geochemical Kinetics 2: Case Study on Microbial Oxidation of Metal Sulfide Minerals and Future Prospects

    • Eric E. Roden

    Pages 417-467

11. Quantitative Approaches to Characterizing Natural Chemical Weathering Rates

    • Art F. White

    Pages 469-543

12. Geochemical Kinetics and Transport

    • Carl I. Steefel

    Pages 545-589

13. Isotope Geochemistry as a Tool for Deciphering Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction

    • Jérôme Gaillardet

    Pages 591-653

14. Kinetics of Global Geochemical Cycles

    • Abraham Lerman, Lingling Wu

    Pages 655-736

15. Back Matter

    Pages 737-833

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Systems at the surface of the Earth are continually responding to energy inputs - rived ultimately from radiation from the Sun or from the radiogenic heat in the - terior. These energy inputs drive plate movements and erosion, exposing metastable mineral phases at the Earth’s surface. In addition, these energy ?uxes are harvested and transformed by living organisms. As long as these processes persist, chemical disequilibrium at the Earth’s surface will be perpetuated. In addition, as human populations grow, the need to produce food, extract - ter, and extract energy resources increases. These processes continually contribute to chemical disequilibrium at the Earth surface. We therefore ?nd it necessary to predict how the surface regolith will change in response to anthropogenic processes as well as long-term climatic and tectonic forcings. To address these questions, we must understand the rates at which reactions occur and the chemical feedbacks that relate these reactions across extreme temporal and spatial scales. Scientists and - gineers who work on soil fertility, nuclear waste disposal, hydrocarbon production, and contaminant and CO sequestration are among the many researchers who need 2 to understand geochemical kinetics. Fundamental questions concerning the lo- term geological, climatic and biological evolution of the planet also rely on g- kinetic information. In this book, we summarize approaches toward measuring and predicting the - netics of water-rock interactions which contribute to the processes mentioned above.

• Desorption
• Dissolution
• Helium-Atom-Streuung
• Kinetics
• Mineral
• Oxide
• Rock
• Sediment
• chemistry
• geochemistry
• metal
• oxidation
• surface
• temperature
• transport
• hydrogeology

• Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

  Susan L. Brantley

• Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

  James D. Kubicki

• U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA

  Art F. White