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Book reuieux
organizing
the chapters as they have, such overlap is to be expected.
Moreover,
without
crossreferencing,
each paper must stand on its own.
Fortunately,
to the credit of the individual
authors,
most of the papers manage to do this. However,
it is up to the reader to realize that other aspects
of the same problem may be treated in other
papers.
Despite these rather serious flaws, volumes 5
and 6 present excellent reviews of the state of
the art in geochemistry
as of 1974 (the last dates
of citation)
and as such should be read by all
workers
interested
in sediment
mineralogy
and
chemistry.
John D. M&man
Woods
Woods
Hole Oceanographic
Hole, Massachusetts
GRASSHOFF,
water
K.
[Ed.]
analysis.
Institution
02543
1976. Methods
of seaVerlag Chemie, Weinheim
xv + 317 p. $43.60.
Reference
J. D., AND T. R. PARSONS.
1968. A
practical handbook of seawater analysis. Bull.
Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 167.
STRICKLAND,