Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction

Volume 70 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry represents an extensive review of the material presented by the invited speakers at a short course on Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction held prior to the 19th annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference in Davos, Switzerland (June 19-21, 2009).

Contents:

Thermodynamic Databases for Water-Rock Interaction

Thermodynamics of Solid Solution-Aqueous Solution Systems

Mineral Replacement Reactions

Thermodynamic Concepts in Modeling Sorption at the Mineral-Water Interface

Surface Complexation Modeling: Mineral Fluid Equilbria at the Molecular Scale

The Link Between Mineral Dissolution/Precipitation Kinetics and Solution Chemistry

Organics in Water-Rock Interactions

Mineral Precipitation Kinetics

Towards an Integrated Model of Weathering, Climate, and Biospheric Processes

Approaches to Modeling Weathered Regolith

Fluid-Rock Interaction: A Reactive Transport Approach

Geochemical Modeling of Reaction Paths and Geochemical Reaction Networks