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Morel, F. M. M. and Hering, J. G. (1993)
Principles and Applications of Aquatic
Chemistry
. Chichester: Wiley. A particularly insightful introduction to usually difficult
concepts of water chemistry. C.
The Oceanography Course Team of the Open University (1991) Oxford: Pergamon. These
seven titles of very clear and wonderfully illustrated bargain topics supersede any intro-
ductory text in Oceanography. I recommend particularly two of these:
Ocean Circulation
and
Seawater: Its Composition, Properties, and Behavior
.A.
Ottonello, G. (2000)
Principles of Geochemistry
. New York: Columbia. An excellent
textbook focused on thermodynamics, now in an affordable paperback edition. B.
Ozima, M. and Podosek, F. (2002)
Noble Gas Geochemistry,
2nd edn. The reference by
two pioneers of the field. B.
Schubert, G., Turcotte, D.L., and Olson, P. (2001)
Mantle convection in the Earth and
Planets
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. If you can't find something about the
interior of the Earth and planets, it will surely be in this topic. Difficult but luminous,
indispensable. C.
Sharp, Z. (2007)
Principles of Stable Isotope Geochemistry.
Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle
River. An insightful and inspiring book with a modern spirit. B.
Silbey, R.J., Alberty, R.A., and Bawendi, M.G. (2005)
Physical Chemistry,
4th edn. Wiley:
Chichester. A powerful book. Beats all my teachers. Your ignorance won't survive. B.
Stumm, W. and Morgan, J. J. (1995)
Aquatic Chemistry
. Chichester: Wiley. The undisputed
bible with plentiful examples. C.
Taylor, S. R. (2001)
Solar System Evolution: A New Perspective
. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. An extremely well-written textbook by one of the leading scholars of
geochemistry. A.
Taylor, S. R. and McLennan, S. M. (1985)
The Continental Crust: its Composition and
Evolution
. Blackwell: Oxford. The ultimate read on the geochemistry of continental
crust. B.
Valley, J. W. and Cole, D. R. (2001)
Stable Isotope Geochemistry.
Washington: Mineralog-
ical Society of America. A set of varied and very high-quality review papers. B.
Wayne, R.P. (2000)
Chemistry of Atmospheres,
3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
An enormous amount of information on modern issues without the hassle of atmospheric
dynamics. B.
Wulfsberg, G. (2000)
Inorganic Chemistry.
Sausallito: University Science Books. Illumi-
nating on some of the most difficult concepts of the field. B.