Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Sediments
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1846
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental geochemistry; metal speciation; pollutant transfer; sediment mineralogy
Interests: environmental geochemistry; organic geochemistry; actinides solubility and characterization; SPM characterization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The environment around us is shaped by surface water through diverse processes. One of the resulting by-products, i.e., sediments, encapsulates information spanning recent and ancient pasts. Certainly, our understanding of climate shifts, human behavior, and ecosystem evolution is significantly enriched by signatures held within sedimentary archives. We can extract information that helps us to understand the environment around us, whether on land or in water bodies, as well as explain lithogenic and anthropogenic processes, some of which we utilize to overcome difficulties, address challenges, and move towards a sustainable environment. The evolution of landscapes, industrialization, urbanization, and other anthropogenic activities can be marked through chemical, mineral, and organic fingerprints in sediments. These kinds of signatures can be revealed by looking into sediment mineralogy and geochemistry (inorganic and organic) using various tools. The main aim of this Special Issue, “Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Sediments”, is to further our understanding of the natural and anthropogenic processes that occur in sediments at various scales, from a bulk, micron-scale, and nanoscale to an atomic scale. For this reason, we encourage the submission of original papers related to field studies, laboratory experiments (e.g., fate of metals and emerging organic contaminants), sediment characterization (with a focus on mineralogy and inorganic and organic geochemistry), metal speciation, contaminant and pollutant behavior, the distribution and weathering of minerals, and the dynamics of natural and anthropogenic materials and elements in sediments, suspended matter, and other water deposits.
Dr. Hussein Kanbar
Dr. Mathieu Le Meur
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sediment inorganic and organic geochemistry
- geochemical signatures and fingerprints
- contamination and pollution behavior
- sediment mineralogy and weathering
- emerging organic contaminants
- natural and anthropogenic processes
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