@article{924938,
      recid = {924938},
      author = {Ganguly, Jibamitra.},
      title = {Thermodynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxxiii, 610 pages) :},
      abstract = {This book presents the fundamental principles of Classical  thermodynamics, supplemented by an overview of Statistical  Thermodynamics, and explores their applications to a wide  variety of problems in the Earth and Planetary sciences,  spanning the range from the Earths core, mantle and crust,  aqueous solutions and fluid-rock interactions to solar  nebula, terrestrial planets and asteroids. The topics  covered include the laws of classical thermodynamics,  microscopic foundations of thermodynamic properties,  critical phenomena and near-critical processes, equations  of state, phase transitions and phase equilibria, the  Earths interior and adiabatic processes, terrestrial magma  ocean, thermodynamics of solutions, element and stable  isotope fractionations, electrolyte solutions and  electrochemistry, osmotic processes, surface effects,  entropy production and kinetic implications, thermodynamics  of chemical diffusion, estimation of thermochemical  properties, and mathematical methods of classical  thermodynamics. There is also a wealth of solved problems  relating to both fundamental concepts and applications to  natural processes.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/924938},
}