Chemical composition of the Earth and its constituent reservoirs; meteorite evidence; elementary statistics for geochemistry; major, minor and trace elements including rare earth elements; element partitioning between minerals and melts; oxide-element conversions; radioactivity and geochronology; chemical and isotopic fractionation; application of Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd isotope geochemistry to rock dating, petrogenesis, and crust-mantle evolution; mixing phenomena in elements and isotopes; related numericals.

Introduction to equilibrium thermodynamics; laws of thermodynamics; internal energy, heat capacity, enthalpy and entropy; Gibbs free energy and chemical potential; fugacity and activity; Raoult’s law and Henry’s law; ideal and non-ideal solutions; equilibrium constant; principles of geothermobarometry; aqueous solutions and solubility equilibria; activities of ionic species; construction of Eh-pH diagrams.