Broecker, W. S., Peng, T. H.

Tracers in the Sea

1982

The Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory

702

"The objective of this book is to demonstrate how the distribution of tracers in the sea and its sediments can be used to aid us in deciphering the operations plan and history of operation for the ocean as a chemical plant. To do this requires the integration of chemical information with information based on studies of ocean sediments, of organisms living in the sea, and of ocean currents. This integration leads to a description of how the ocean "works" from the point of view of a geochemist. Such integrations are not common to the field of oceanography because only in attempting to understand the chemistry of the sea is it necessary to consider the results from all the sister disciplines."