GEOCHEMISTRY

The following sections are included:

• PLATE TECTONICS AND NATURAL RESOURCES

  • Hydrothermal Reaction to Mineral Deposits

  • World Phosphate Deposits

  • Tethyan Seaway

  • Rift Basin of South Atlantic Margin

  • Estonian Kukersite Oil Shale

  • Kimmeridge Clay Formation

  • Cordilleran and Andean Belts

  • Western Seaway

  • Rift Depressions in Cretaceous Period

  • Green River Formation

  • Collision of Floating Islands of Panthalassa Ocean in Eastern Asia

• STABLE ISOTOPES

  • Geochronology — Radiometric Dating

  • Rb–Sr System

  • Re–Os System

  • ¹⁴C Dating

• GEOCHEMICAL BIOMARKERS

  • Monoterpanes

  • Sesquiterpanes

  • Diterpanes

  • Sesterterpanes

  • Triterpanes

  • Tetraterpanes

  • Polyterpanes

  • Porphyrins

  • Others

• REFERENCES

• PROBLEM SET