GEOL 4003 - Principles and Applications of Environmental Geochemistry

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: GEOL 1121K, MATH 2211, and CHEM 1212K.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
This course will cover the principles of environmental geochemistry and their applications to the understanding of low-temperatures environmental and geological problems. Primary topics include: elementary thermodynamics; geochemistry of natural waters; oxidationreduction reactions; mineral-water interaction; cycling of biogeochemical elements; and introduction to isotope geochemistry and geochronology for low temperature systems.