Geochemical Self-Organization

.. if equations are not your cup of tea, then ignore them, take their results on trust and plough ahead reading the interpretations of the models presented. It will do you good. .... this is an interesting and unconventional contribution. Sections could be read with profit particularly by sedimentologists, structural geologists, metamorphic petrologists and geochemists of all stamps. I would recommend that a copy reside in your institutional library. Journal of Petrology

• Introduction. 1: Feedback, instability, and bifurcation. 2: Oscillatory zoning in crystals. 3: Reaction-transport modeling. 4: Flow-driven reaction fronts. 5: Dissipative structures at reaction fronts. 6: Reaction-front morphology. 7: Liesegang Banding. 8: Unstable coursening fronts and precipitate patterning. 9: Mechano-chemical coupling. 10: Metamorphic differentiation. 11: Diagenetic differentiated mechano-chemical structures. 12: Geodes, concretiobs, agates, and orbicules. 13: Reaction-driven advection. 14: Compartmentation of a sedimentary basin. 15: Oscillatory fluid flow through the fracturing and healing cycle in a compartmented basin