Geochemistry and the biosphere / / Vladimir I. Vernadskiĭ ; edited by Frank B. Salisbury

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811811903321
• Autore: Vernadskiĭ V. I (Vladimir Ivanovich), <1863-1945, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Santa Fe, New Mexico : , : Synergetic Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• ISBN: 0-907791-64-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 551.9
• Soggetti: Biosphere; Biogeochemistry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editor's foreword -- Introduction by Academician Alexander Yanshin -- essays on geochemistry -- the history of geochemistry -- 1 Geochemistry as a Science of the Twentieth Century -- 2 Forms of Existence of Chemical Elements -- chemical elements in the earth's crust -- their forms of existence and classification -- 1 Geochemistry Classification of Chemical Elements -- 2 Forms of Existence of Chemical Elements -- 3 Geochemistry of Iodine and Bromine -- 4 Living Organisms in the Earth's Crust -- 5 The History of Free Oxygen -- 6 Living Matter -- 7 Matter in a State of Dispersion -- carbon and living matter in the earth's crust -- 1 Carbon in Different Geospheres and Its Role -- 2 The Stability of Carbon Minerals -- 3 Dispersion of Carbides -- 4 Primary Carbides -- 5 Petroleum and Its Formation -- 6 The Primary Geochemical Carbon Cycle -- 7 Earth's Gases and Living Matter -- 8 Living Matter and the Geochemical History of Carbon -- 9 Spreading of Living Matter in the Biosphere and the Geochemical Importance of the Proliferation of Organisms -- 10 The Quantity of Carbon in Living Matter -- 11 The Constancy of the Mass of Living Matter -- 12 Chemical Structure of the Earth's Crust -- 13 Organisms: Concentrators of Chemical Elements -- 14 Carbonic Acid as the Main Source of Carbon in Living Matter -- 15 The Dynamic Balance of the Carbonic Acid in the Atmosphere -- 16 ; The Cycle of Life -- 17 Incomplete Reversibility of the Cycle of Life -- 18 The Geological Cycle of Calcium Carbonate -- 19 Redi's Principle -- 20 The Energy of Living Matter and Carnot's Principle -- 21 The Free Energy of the Biosphere and Living Matter -- 22 Geochemical Activities of Man -- the biosphere -- the biosphere in the cosmos -- The Biosphere in Its Cosmic Environment.; The Biosphere as the Reason For the Transformation of Cosmic Energy -- An Empirical Generalization and a Hypothesis -- Living Matter in the Biosphere -- Propagation of Organisms and Geochemical Energy of Living Matter -- The Green Living Matter -- Some Remarks on Living Matter in the Mechanism of the Biosphere -- the domain of life -- The Biosphere -- the Earth's Envelope -- The Living Matter of the First and the Second Order in the Biosphere -- The Limits of Life -- The Boundaries of Life in the Biosphere -- Life in the Hydrosphere -- Geochemical Cycle of Vital Aggregations and Living Films of the Hydrosphere -- The Living Matter of the Land -- The Interconnection of the Hydrosphere and the Terrestrial Vital Films -- a few words about the noösphere.
• Sommario/riassunto: This new volume introduces the Russian-Ukrainian scientist Vladimir I. Vernadsky, largely known in Eastern Europe through his groundbreaking 1926 monograph, The Biosphere.