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Analytical techniques in environmental chemistry
216
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selected rock sample locations and recoveries, and finally, a compilation of chemical analyses of rocks from the North Atlantic Basin. The remaining sections include a listing of publications from the TransAtlantic Geotraverse project and a listing of the sources of information that make up the maps, photographs and tables. I have a strong feeling that it is the latter compilation that will be most important to serious research workers in the North Atlantic. Whilst the maps provide a nice base and summary of existing information-me area covered is too large and the detail insufficient for most IocaI studies. Knowing where detaikd information exists for the specific locations is an important facet and probably where this Atlas will most be needed. At Sl7.00 (from Dept. SO,Superintendant of Documents,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington. DC 20402). the Atlas is a good buy. it acts as a good starting place for geophysical and geological studies. The energy resources and marine mineral resource maps are too scanty and lack sufficient detail to be of much value. The Petros file (which serves as the basis for the table on chemical composition of igneous rocks) has many more analyses now than listed In this present Atlas. One other small deficiency-the Atlas is very large (19” x 30”) and is ‘softbound’ which makes it difficult to handle and store.
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specialized conference. Unfortunately, this conference dealt with a very broad subject area and any one specialist would be concerned with only a fraction of the papers in this book. The typescript is generally of fairly good quality and relatively error free, but varies between articles since the publisher has used direct reproduction from the original manu~ripts. The book has comprehensive subject and author indices. The quality of the paper and binding is good. I would recommend this book for the libraries of a11 institutes where active research in environmental chemistry is being carried out. Individuals, on the other hand, will probably find the price prohibitively h&b and the number of articles relevent to their own specific area of research relatively few.
by
in EFW-&l
J. ALBAIGES. Pergatnon
cbcnrirby,
edited
Press, 1980,646 pp., 385.00.
THIS BQOKcontains the proceedings of an international congress on environmental analytical chemistry that was held in Barcelona+ Spain, November 1978. There are sixty articles divided about equally between the areas of organic and inorganic an&y&. Six of the papers are fairly lengthy reviews on a variety of topics including: environmental chemistry of natural versus anthropogenic compounds, polycyclic aromatic chemistry, polychlorinated biphenyls and related compounds. chemical carcinogenesis, ion selective electrodes, and advances in electrochemical methods of analysis. I found these useful and are not likely to be found duplicated elsewhere. The remainder of the papers are mostly reports on currettt research. Here f have a serious reservation about this book and others of its type. By the time conference proceedings appear on the market, most of the papers have been published in journals in far more detail (especially in the experimental sections where these papers are sadly deftcient). Of course there is value in gathering together a series of ciosety related papers from a
Ocean Dumping pd Ma&e Po&tia~: Grdgieal Aapeets of Waste Dbpaa edited by HAROLDD. PALMERand M. GRANT GROSS. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, 1978, 262 pp.. S18.00.
TRIS BOOK consists of 13 papers, mostly presented in June 1977 at an SEPM meeting. The book is almost entirely concerned with the dumping of dredge spoils in the coastal zone and on the continental shelf of the United States, and emphasises the physical movement of dumped particulate matter. Most papers are concerned with observations on dumped sediment mo~ment at a particular site. The work reported emphasises our limited scientific understanding of processes and rates of transport in the benthic boundary layer on the Shelf. Nichols addresses the problem of whether dredging estuarine channels to below equilibrium depths is a self-defeating exercise. Two contributions deal
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02.5’43. L’XA.
Department of Chemistry M&aster University Hamilton 16 Ontario, L8S 4MI
GEOFFREYTHOMPWN
hf. A. QUILLIAM
Can&
with sewage dumpin& and one with the regulatory maze in obtaining a permit to dispose of dredged material. There is almost no discussion of chemical problems associated with early diagenetic changes in dredge soit and interaction with marine water or organisms. Gross and Cronin discuss brielIy the inadequacy of the elutriation test for assessing sediment-seawater interaction, but suggest no specific alternatives. A little chemical data is reported by Folger et al. for an acid dump site. This book is of considerable interest to sedimentologists, but those concerned with geochemical problems will find it d~ap~intin~ Oepurrment of Geolog):
DAVID J. PIPER
Dalhousie University
Hali$ax Nova Scotia B3H 35.5 Canada
or8011 I, 296 pp.. 158.00 F; Orgea II, 389 pp., 185.00 F; Otgoa III, 441 pp.. 190.00 F, 1980.
and along the Atlantic Coast of Senegal. Mauritania and Cape Verde Islands (1976). During each of the three cruises. between ten and twenty sites were drilled and the
ORGON is the name of a oroiect which was set up for studying the geochemistry o\ oiganic matter and its &olution in deep sea sediments. Three missions of the ship ‘Jean Charcot’ were organized to collect samples in the Norvegian Sea (1974). along the Northern Coast of Brazil (1975)
core samples were analyzed
for their organic.
mineral
or
aqueous fractions. Orgon I, II and 111 are presented as reports of data and resuits obtained by an important number researchers in sedimentology, pateoclimatology.
of French bacterio-
Book
reviews
selected rock sample locations and recoveries, and finally, a compilation of chemical analyses of rocks from the North Atlantic Basin. The remaining sections include a listing of publications from the TransAtlantic Geotraverse project and a listing of the sources of information that make up the maps, photographs and tables. I have a strong feeling that it is the latter compilation that will be most important to serious research workers in the North Atlantic. Whilst the maps provide a nice base and summary of existing information-me area covered is too large and the detail insufficient for most IocaI studies. Knowing where detaikd information exists for the specific locations is an important facet and probably where this Atlas will most be needed. At Sl7.00 (from Dept. SO,Superintendant of Documents,
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington. DC 20402). the Atlas is a good buy. it acts as a good starting place for geophysical and geological studies. The energy resources and marine mineral resource maps are too scanty and lack sufficient detail to be of much value. The Petros file (which serves as the basis for the table on chemical composition of igneous rocks) has many more analyses now than listed In this present Atlas. One other small deficiency-the Atlas is very large (19” x 30”) and is ‘softbound’ which makes it difficult to handle and store.
Anniytical -~&II&W
specialized conference. Unfortunately, this conference dealt with a very broad subject area and any one specialist would be concerned with only a fraction of the papers in this book. The typescript is generally of fairly good quality and relatively error free, but varies between articles since the publisher has used direct reproduction from the original manu~ripts. The book has comprehensive subject and author indices. The quality of the paper and binding is good. I would recommend this book for the libraries of a11 institutes where active research in environmental chemistry is being carried out. Individuals, on the other hand, will probably find the price prohibitively h&b and the number of articles relevent to their own specific area of research relatively few.
by
in EFW-&l
J. ALBAIGES. Pergatnon
cbcnrirby,
edited
Press, 1980,646 pp., 385.00.
THIS BQOKcontains the proceedings of an international congress on environmental analytical chemistry that was held in Barcelona+ Spain, November 1978. There are sixty articles divided about equally between the areas of organic and inorganic an&y&. Six of the papers are fairly lengthy reviews on a variety of topics including: environmental chemistry of natural versus anthropogenic compounds, polycyclic aromatic chemistry, polychlorinated biphenyls and related compounds. chemical carcinogenesis, ion selective electrodes, and advances in electrochemical methods of analysis. I found these useful and are not likely to be found duplicated elsewhere. The remainder of the papers are mostly reports on currettt research. Here f have a serious reservation about this book and others of its type. By the time conference proceedings appear on the market, most of the papers have been published in journals in far more detail (especially in the experimental sections where these papers are sadly deftcient). Of course there is value in gathering together a series of ciosety related papers from a
Ocean Dumping pd Ma&e Po&tia~: Grdgieal Aapeets of Waste Dbpaa edited by HAROLDD. PALMERand M. GRANT GROSS. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, 1978, 262 pp.. S18.00.
TRIS BOOK consists of 13 papers, mostly presented in June 1977 at an SEPM meeting. The book is almost entirely concerned with the dumping of dredge spoils in the coastal zone and on the continental shelf of the United States, and emphasises the physical movement of dumped particulate matter. Most papers are concerned with observations on dumped sediment mo~ment at a particular site. The work reported emphasises our limited scientific understanding of processes and rates of transport in the benthic boundary layer on the Shelf. Nichols addresses the problem of whether dredging estuarine channels to below equilibrium depths is a self-defeating exercise. Two contributions deal
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02.5’43. L’XA.
Department of Chemistry M&aster University Hamilton 16 Ontario, L8S 4MI
GEOFFREYTHOMPWN
hf. A. QUILLIAM
Can&
with sewage dumpin& and one with the regulatory maze in obtaining a permit to dispose of dredged material. There is almost no discussion of chemical problems associated with early diagenetic changes in dredge soit and interaction with marine water or organisms. Gross and Cronin discuss brielIy the inadequacy of the elutriation test for assessing sediment-seawater interaction, but suggest no specific alternatives. A little chemical data is reported by Folger et al. for an acid dump site. This book is of considerable interest to sedimentologists, but those concerned with geochemical problems will find it d~ap~intin~ Oepurrment of Geolog):
DAVID J. PIPER
Dalhousie University
Hali$ax Nova Scotia B3H 35.5 Canada
or8011 I, 296 pp.. 158.00 F; Orgea II, 389 pp., 185.00 F; Otgoa III, 441 pp.. 190.00 F, 1980.
and along the Atlantic Coast of Senegal. Mauritania and Cape Verde Islands (1976). During each of the three cruises. between ten and twenty sites were drilled and the
ORGON is the name of a oroiect which was set up for studying the geochemistry o\ oiganic matter and its &olution in deep sea sediments. Three missions of the ship ‘Jean Charcot’ were organized to collect samples in the Norvegian Sea (1974). along the Northern Coast of Brazil (1975)
core samples were analyzed
for their organic.
mineral
or
aqueous fractions. Orgon I, II and 111 are presented as reports of data and resuits obtained by an important number researchers in sedimentology, pateoclimatology.
of French bacterio-