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1 Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, 2 School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, 3 Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, 4 Physical and Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United...

Adri C. T. van Duin,† Alejandro Strachan,‡ Shannon Stewman,‡ Qingsong Zhang,‡ Xin Xu,‡ and William A. Goddard, III*,‡ Department of Fossil Fuels and EnVironmental Geochemistry, Drummond Building, UniVersity of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom, and Materials and Process Simulation Center, Beckman Institute (139-74), DiVision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California...

A. T. Basilevsky, L. Li. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China ([email protected]), Dept. Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue Univer...

*Corresponding author (e-mail: [email protected]) *Present address: Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa, Oiwake, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan. **Present address: Institute of Geochemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 46 Guanshui Road, Guiyang/Guizhou 550002, China. †Present address: NPO Mori-no-za, Ina 396-0011, Japan. ‡Present address: Graduate ...

1 Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2 Department Surface Waters, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland, 3 Department Water Resources and Drinking Water, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland, 4 ...

This article presents various aspects of the use and evaluation of geochemical background for different environmental media with a brief discussion on the origins, historical and present context, and application of this and other related terms. This subject has become one of the most crucial issues in geochemistry and environmental sciences during the last few years because of its application t...