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Trace-Element Geochemistry

Subject: Chemistry

Art: Claes Janszoon Vooght, Ca. 1680 celestial chart by Claes Jansz Vooght, circa 1680 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Frederick Frey
Term: Spring 2013
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 16 lecture notes · 13 other files · 2 web pages
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This course’s cited books, in our reading lists: Elementary Thermodynamics for Geologists · The Principles of Chemical Equilibrium

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Trace-Element Geochemistry

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Lecture Notes

Seminars and Discussions

Lecture 1: Beginnings of geochemistry (PDF)

Lecture 2: Thermodynamic consideration of TE solid solutions (PDF)

Lecture 3: Partition coefficient (PDF)

Lecture 4: Ionic model for bonding and the role of ionic radii in understanding the partitioning of trace elements between phases (PDF)

Lecture 5: Nomenclature for trace element classification (PDF)

Lecture 6: Determination of partition coefficients (PDF)

Lecture 7: Determination of partition coefficients: discussion of experimental approach (PDF) Appendix (PDF)

Lecture 8: More examples of experimental approaches for determination of TE partition coefficients (PDF)

Lecture 9: Trace element abundance variations in simple melt-solid systems (PDF)

Lecture 10: Fractional crystallization (PDF)

Lecture 11: Fractional melting (PDF)

Lecture 12: Complex melting models (PDF)

Lecture 13: Constraints on melt models arising from disequilibrium in the Th-U decay system (PDF)

Lecture 14: Ion exchange chromatography (PDF)