Marine geochemistry / Морская геохимия

The fundamental question underlying marine geochemistry is, ‘How do the oceans work as a chemical system?’ At present, that question cannot be answered fully. The past four decades or so, however, have seen a number of ‘quantum leaps’ in our understanding of some aspects of marine geochemistry. Three principal factors have made these leaps possible:
1    advances in sampling and analytical techniques;
2    the development of theoretical concepts;
3    the setting up of large-scale international oceanographic programmes (e.g. DSDP, MANOP, HEBBTE, GEOSECS, TTO, VERTEX, JGOFS, SEAREX, WOCE), which have extended the marine geochemistry database to a global ocean scale. <...>