Analyzing Constituents in Pore Water, Typical Profiles

4 Analyzing Constituents in Pore Water, Typical Profiles 

This section does not claim to re-write the analytical treatment of sea water anew, nor is it intended to present this aspect as a mere recapitulation of facts which will be far from being complete. This task would by far exceed the possibilities and, above all, the scope of this book. However, analytical methods are subject to continual improvement and relatively fast changes so that many of the methods to be introduced here would soon become outdated. Therefore, only a short account of the current methods will be given, especially of those that demand comment on the specificity to marine pore water. 

The analytical details of methods that are currently used in the examination of marine pore water can be looked up in the internet under the following address  

We will take it upon ourselves to continually update the internet page, to evaluate the suggestions we receive for improvement, and eventually make this information available to other researchers. 

If we take for granted that, in each single case, the determination of oxygen dissolved in marine pore water, as well as the measurement of the pH-value, Ejj-value, and certainly the measurement of the temperature as well, has already been performed, the following sequence of single analytical steps is applied to the pressed or centrifuged pore water samples  

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