Geochemical Self-Organization

Peter J Ortoleva author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:3rd Nov '94

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This monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of geological systems which become spatially organized through the mediation of chemical processes. The treatment is based on a mathematical approach. The intended readership includes researcher and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in all branches of geology as well as scientists and mathematicians concerned with nonlinear dynamics, numerical analysis, self-organization, nonlinear waves and dynamics, and phase transition phenomena. The work could also serve as a basis for a special topics course in mathematics, chemistry or physics.

.. if equations are not your cup of tea, then ignore them, take their results on trust and plough ahead reading the interpretations of the models presented. It will do you good. .... this is an interesting and unconventional contribution. Sections could be read with profit particularly by sedimentologists, structural geologists, metamorphic petrologists and geochemists of all stamps. I would recommend that a copy reside in your institutional library. Journal of Petrology

ISBN: 9780195044768

Dimensions: 243mm x 160mm x 26mm

Weight: 903g

432 pages