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Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Much of the earths surface is covered by water, and water usually is present in pores and fractures to considerable depths even on the continents. However, the concentrations of these elements are almost always less than 1 percent, and they are therefore rarely determined in routine chemical analyses. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Environmental chemists frequently approach their subject with less consideration of the historical record than geoscientists. The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the earth and other planets, the composition of rocks and soils, the cycles that involve the earths chemical components, and the interaction of those cycles with land and water. It includes an introduction aqueous to geochemistry and geochemical modeling of.
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