Recent Contributions in the Field of Sediment Geochemistry

Abstract

Sediment geochemistry is a powerful tool to investigate earth surface processes because sediments record geochemical
signatures of their provenance, generation, transport, deposition, and environmental conditions. A significant advancement
in the technology of analytical geochemistry has made geochemical analyses of sediments more rapid and precise, which
together provided an impetus to the study of sediment system. As a result, high-quality research papers on sediment
geochemistry have been published during the last five years from India. A foreseeable growth of research and an increase in
the publication are likely in the future because of the new set-ups of state- of the- art analytical instruments for geochemical
research at various research and academic institutions in India. Here we are presenting the published important work on
sediment geochemistry under three categories, i.e., weathering, erosion, deposition and provenance determination; sediment
geochemistry as palaeoclimate proxy; and environmental geochemistry.