Volume 23 of Reviews in Mineralogy and accompanying MSA short course covers chemical reactions
that take place at mineral-water interfaces. We believe that this book describes most of the
important concepts and contributions that have driven mineral-water interface geochemistry to
its present state. We begin in Chapter 1 with examples of the global importance of
mineral-water interface reactions and a brief review of the contents of the entire book.
Thereafter we have divided the book into four sections including atomistic approaches
(Chapters 2- 3) adsorption (Chapters 4-8) precipitation and dissolution (Chapters 9-11) and
oxidation-reduction reactions (Chapters 11-14).
