Environmental Geochemistry
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{{#Customtitle:환경지구화학 Environmental Geochemistry}}
Contents
개요 Outlines
This course is to lead students to understand and think of the solutions for the environmental problems related to the realms of human activities from the point of view of geochemistry.
일반 과목 정보 Gneral course information
- Course code: 330057
- Credit-Lecture-Lab work: 3-3-0
- Grading: With Midterm Exam (30%) + Final Exam (30%) + Assignment Report(30%) + Attendance (10%)
- Type of class: Lecture + Discussion
교재 및 참고서 Text & references
- Text: None
- References: Any textbook related to the environmental sciences and geochemistry such as Applied Environmental Geochemistry (I. Thornton, 1983, Academic Press), Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry (D. Langmuir, 1997, Prentice Hall)
수강 조건 Prerequisites
Geochemistry advised
강의 계획 Lecture schedule
| Week # | Lecture title | Assignments | Lecture note | Reading Materials & Others |
| 1 | Definition of Geochemistry, Various Fields of Study in Geochemistry | File:Chapter01 WM White.pdf | ||
| 2 | Solar system and elemental distribution | Thinking of how the elements distributes as they do now | ||
| 3 | Thermodynamics for geochemistry, Part 1 | Surveying the characteristics of the Moon | ||
| 4 | Thermodynamics for geochemistry, Part 2 | What is chemical equilibrium? | ||
| 5 | Structure of atoms; how the electron configuration controls the properties of the elements | Calculation of the Gibbs free energy change as a function of temperature and pressure | ||
| 6 | Chemical bondings and crystal chemistry of minerals | Calculation of ionicities of bondings in various silicates | ||
| 7 | Radiogenic isotopes, Part 1; principles of radioactive decay and age dating | Caculation of Radius ratio range for a given coordination number | ||
| 8 | Radiogenic isotopes, Part 2; utilization of radiogenic isotopes in various geologic fields | Determination of absolute age | ||
| 9 | Stable isotopes, Part 1; isotope fractionation | |||
| 10 | Stable isotopes, Part 2; Utilization of stable isotopes in various geological fields | Calculation of isotope fractionation | ||
| 11 | Igeneous geochemistry, Part 1: Major element distribution | Extraction for stable isotope analysis | ||
| 12 | Igneous geochemistry, Part 2: Minor elelment distribution | Interpretation of stability diagrams | ||
| 13 | Low T aqueous geochemistry, Part 1; types of reactions and equilibrium | Analysis of REE patterns | ||
| 14 | Low T aqueous geochemistry, Part 2; Phase equilibria | Calculation of solubilities | ||
| 15 | Low T aqueous geochemistry, Part 3; Redox reactions | Eh-pH diagram |
