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Hydrochemistry is a subject which in the most general sense could cover all areas of nature which contain water and dissolved matter. However, in the present context, hydrochemistry is considered to be an integral part of hydrology and is thus somewhat restricted, excluding oceans and continental ice sheets unless, for example, their chemistry could be related to the chemistry of terrestrial waters. Perhaps it is easier to define hydrochemistry as the subject area of transformation and transportation of substances, together with the circulation of water in the continental areas of the globe, on a time scale up to a few thousand years. This description clearly excludes ocean processes and transports but not the oceans as a possible source for airborne dissolved substances.
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Eriksson, E. (1985). Introduction. In: Principles and Applications of Hydrochemistry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4836-5_1
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