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Water Distribution on Earth |
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97% Ocean
2% Ice Caps
1% Ground Water
.01% lakes
.001% Atmosphere |
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Residence time of Atmosphere |
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Residence time of the ocean |
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East to West at low latitudes |
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West to East at mid-latitudes |
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Direction of wind in the Upper Hemisphere
Lower Hemisphere |
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Upper Hemisphere = clockwise
Lower Hemisphere = counter clock wise |
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Direction of ocean in the Upper Hemisphere
Lower Hemisphere |
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Upper Hemisphere = clockwise
Lower Hemisphere = counter clock wise |
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Atmosphere is heated from? |
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75-200m = 18C
1000m - 3500m = 3C
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sharply decreasing density that parallels the thermocline |
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Describe Salt Water Currents |
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sinks in thw norwegian seadown, down the atlantic, up into the pacific and indian ocean.
Exchange rate 100 - 1000 years |
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Chem that are well mixed and not well mixed
Residence/Mixing time? |
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Residence Time >>> Mixing Time =uniform concentration
Residence Time < Mixing Time = Non uniform
LAKES
Residence time for any chemical cannot be longer than the water renewal time
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Ocean Salinity
amount
Depth Chart |
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35 parts per thousand 35g/kg
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Expected Solid or solution phase? |
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Monovalent ion and Large Divalent have weak ionic bonds and are expected to be in solution and have long residence times |
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Only homogenious ocean ions |
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Absorbed particles in particulate matter have ____ residence times |
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Ions that have a seasonal behavior in a lake |
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Cu, Ni, Cd are recycled behavior in summer and scavendeg in the winter |
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Equilibrium constant vs. Temp & Pressure |
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Increase Temp = Increased eq. Constant = more products only if endothermic (gets cold)
Increase Pressure = increased eq Constant = more products |
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Typical Lake Concentration Curve |
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Ocean Acumulated Curve
Residence time
Ions |
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Recycled Curve
Residence Time
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Ocean Scavenged curve
Residence Time
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Ocean Temp Curves
Low mid high latitudes |
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Acid Base Reaction
k name |
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Products are OH- or H+
k=dissociation Constant |
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components are assembly into a product
k= stability constant |
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Dissolution Precipitation |
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Products are a breakdown of starting material
k= soulubility products |
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activity coefficient of a solid |
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K High Ionic Strength = K
K low Ionic Strength =Kd
K>Kd = more soluable in High
K<Kd = more soluable in low |
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activity coefficient of ions in solution |
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always less than one. = minerals are more soluable in high ionic strength than low ionic strength |
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Henry's Law Constant Vs.
Temp
Molecular Weight
solubility
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HLC increases with decreasing Temp
HLC increases with increasing molecular weight
Large molecules are more polarized = more surface area to interact with water = prefer solution phase
salt reduces binding energy means more gas in freshwater |
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How to measure partial pressure |
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(atm)[]
sealevel O2
1atm*21% = .21atm |
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eq is water surface
flows high to low so if
[A] in soultion > eq then fluxes to air and is super saturated
[A] in soultion < eq then fluxes to water and is subsaturated
[]decreases with increasing temp |
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Transport Velocity
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diffusion coefficint
film thickness |
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increases with diffusion coefficient
decreases with film thickness |
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thinkness decreases with increased windspeed |
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CO2 concentration is greatest @ |
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Equatordue to upwelling, everywhere else is subsaturated
Lakes are supersaturated especially during spring |
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Metabolic Processes uptake these elements |
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These compounds are depleted on the surface waters due to photosynthesis |
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CO2, H3SiO4, NO3, PO4
increase with depth |
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Large number at surface, depeletes in depths |
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Type of Shell Produced
Coccolithophorida
Foraminifera
Pteropods
Diatoms
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Coccolithophorida = Calcite
Foraminifera = Calcite
Pteropods = aragonite
Diatoms = Opal
Radiolarians = Opal |
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Limiting Nutrient in Oceans |
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Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Iron in Austrailia, Silica in South America |
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Letter representing element loss into sediments |
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Letter representing element loss into deep waters |
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Fraction of element lost during each mixing cycle |
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High g => high level of mixing
Low f => low loss into sediments
Residence time = 10^5 - 2*10^4
Cs/Cr very different from Cd/Cr |
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g around .7-0
f = .1
Residence Time = 10^4 - 8*10^5
Cs/Cr close to Cd/Cr
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no g
no f
Residence Time = 6*10^7 - 1*10^8
Cs/Cr = Cd/Cr |
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Lake names for surface, deep, and sediments |
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Epilimnion, Hypolimnion, sediements |
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Acids give H+
Bases recieve H+ |
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Titration Volume Equation |
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H2CO3*-> HCO3- + H+
HCO3- -> CO32- + H+
H2O -> H+ + OH- |
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H2CO3* Alkalinity Equation |
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[ALK]= [HCO3-] + 2[CO32-] +[OH-] - [H+] |
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Soluibility and pH change |
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Metals: solubility increases as pH increases |
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saturation, rainy vs. arid regions |
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Rainy: low concentrations of ions are undersaturated with respect to CaCO3, CO2 added by decomposing matter causes further dissolving of CaCO3
Arid: High ion concentration and are supersatured with respect to CaCO3 |
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Types of Weathering and how they are done |
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Physical Weathering - wind abrasion, ice, plant rooots
Chemical Weathering - Dissolved species into water
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Chemical Weather is effect by
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Temperature
Water Flow
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pH: Low pH Increases weathering
Temperature: Increases weathering
Water Flow: Increases weathering
Solubility: high Sol. Increases weathering
Vegatation: Releases organic acids into soil and Increases weathering |
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Rock Types and Description |
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Igneous - crystallization from melted rock at high temps
Sedimentary - Sedimentation in water formed by various debris
Metamorphic - Recrystallization of igneous and sedimentary at high temp and pressure without melting
75% of surface is sedimentary |
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Rock classes and dissolved in water |
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Evaporites: 17%
Carbonate: 38%
Silicates: 45%
*Lower % is better for abundance |
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SiO4 charge and Structure |
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Si = 4+
O = 8-
Total = -4
More SHARED Oxygen is better in crystal
SiO2 is strongest
SiO4 weakest (most soluble) |
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Riverflow highest and lowest |
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highest: low & high latitudes
Lowest: mid latitudes |
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Rivers
Inorganic Particles
Major Dissolved Species |
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Inorganic Particles: Al, Fe, Si, Ca
Major Dissolved Species: Ca2+, Na+, Mg2+, K+ |
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Things that increase sediment load
Things that reduce sediment load |
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High elevation
easily eroded materials
heavy rainfall
large drainage areas & lakes reduce |
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Total concentration of dissolved ions in rivers |
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Covers entire ocean floor, Thickest deposits near mouths of rivers and along coast, composed of silicate minerals |
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formed by the desposition of phytoplankton and zooplankton, If not red clay than this or opal, Organsims that produces this are much more uniform thus more distributed throughout oceans,
made by organisms that use nitrates and phosphate but not silica making them soft and easily dissolved in surface waters and distributed
some waters are under/over-saturated with respect to CaCO3 determining dissolving
dominate atlantic sediments
16% preserved in sediments |
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formed by the desposition of phytoplankton and zooplankton, If not red clay than this or CaCO3,
highly nonunifrom, near upwelling since silica is not recycled easily. most in equator, antartica and pacific. LEAST in atlantic
Ocean is undersaturated with repsect to opal so always will dissolve |
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Low Polarizability
Electrostatic Bonding
Na+ |
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High Polarizability
Covalent Bonding
Cu+ |
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Metal/Ligand Absorption Curve |
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Organic matter absorption increases at low pH and decreases as pH rises |
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Oxidation Number
O
H
Reduced travel =
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O2 = 0
O = -2
H = +1
Reduced travel = more -
Oxidized travel = more + |
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Release of absorbed particles |
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When particles enter deep water that is low in oxygen metal return to solution phase and diffuse back to surface where they are reabsorbed again. |
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