Geochemistry papers

R. L. Parker, in M. Fleischer, ed.. Data in Geochemistry, 6th ed.. Geological Survey Professional Paper 440D, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1967, Chapt. D, Table 18. 

The purpose of the collection of papers in this volume is to review what can be said about the susceptibility to liquefaction of coals from different parts of the world. We and later authors will present data relative to coals of the areas with which we are familiar. However, with the Editor s approval, we are going to devote the first part of this paper to making some general remarks about coal geology and geochemistry, in the hope that this will provide a useful background to what comes later. 

Ebens, R.J. and H.T. Shacklette. 1982. Geochemistry of Some Rocks, Mine Spoils, Stream Sediments, Soils, Plants, and Waters in the Western Energy Region of the Conterminous United States. U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 1237. U.S. Govt. Printing Off., Washington, D.C. 173 pp. 

Lett, R E. Doyle, J. 2009. Geochemistry projects by the British Columbia Geological Survey. British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources, Paper 2008-1, 219-229. 

Armstrong, J.E. 1976. Quaternary geology, stratigraphic studies and revaluation of terrain inventory maps, Fraser Lowland, British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 75-1, Part A, 377-380. Bowell, R.J. 1994. Sorption of arsenic by iron oxides and oxyhydroxides in soils. Applied Geochemistry, 9, 279-286. 

This paper outlines a novel approach to maximising the value of kinetic data by combining mineralogy, aqueous geochemistry and kinetic test data to design ground and surface water exploration programs. The approach is tested on environmental data collected by Adanac Molybdenum Corporation at the Ruby Creek Molybdenum project, Atlin, BC, Canada. 

Hughes, R.E. and Smith, R.L. (1993). Archaeology, geology and geochemistry in obsidian provenance studies. In Effects of Scale on Archaeological and Geoscientific Perspectives, ed. Stein, J.K. and Linse, A.R., Special Papers 283, Geological Society of America, Boulder, pp. 79-91. 

This paper is based primarily on the understanding of reactions at the oxide-electrolyte interface gained through the study of collodial suspensions of oxides. From the point of view of the geochemist, these suspensions of pure oxides are pristine systems, interesting, but perhaps of only marginal relevance to geochemistry. To the pure chemist, these systems are almost too ill-defined to warrant serious scientific consideration. 

Despite the impracticality of the subject and the indifference of university officials toward it, American scientists made fundamental contributions to geochemistry in the early twentieth century. This paper seeks to determine why. The answer, I maintain, is not to be found in institutional arrangements or in market forces, but rather in the multiplicity of intellectual traditions represented in the United States, in the openness of the American scientific community to cross-disciplinary intellectual exchange, and in the willingness of American scientists to undertake experiments in multi-disciplinary collaboration. 

Harrison W. J. (1977). An experimental study of the partitioning of samarium between garnet and liquid at high pressures. In Papers Presented to the International Conference on Experimental Trace Elements Geochemistry, Sedona, Arizona. 

Although much research at both UNB (University of New Brunswick) and UNSW (University of New South Wales) was on drainage and soils geochemistry, this paper will deal mostly with rock geochemistry and anomaly formation. 

Locock, A.J. 1994. Aspects of the geochemistry and mineralogy of the Ice River alkaline intrusive complex, Yoho National Park, British Columbia. MSc thesis. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. Parrish, R.R., Heinrich, S., Archibald, D. 1987. In Radiogenic Age and Isotopic Studies Report 1, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 87-2, 33-37. 

The purpose of this paper is to document the occurrence, geology, geophysics, and geochemistry of the Fraser Lakes uranium showings. 

The rate and quantity of radon and uranium contributed to waters exposed to mineralized outcrops and the subsequent mobility of these elements in the present day environment has not been previously documented. This paper presents the results from leaching experiments carried out on uranium-enriched Horton Group sandstones in the Windsor area of Nova Scotia. Understanding of these processes is important both to environmental and exploration geochemistry. 

The foundations of stable isotope geochemistry were laid in 1947 by Urey s classic paper on the thermodynamic properties of isotopic substances and by Nier s development of the ratio mass spectrometer. Before discussing details of the naturally occurring variations in stable isotope ratios, it is useful to describe some generalities that are pertinent to the field of non-radiogenic isotope geochemistry as a whole. 

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