Decomposition of the Galactic Disk: Abundances and Kinematics

To this contribution we present a brief review of our recent abundance surveys (Reddy et al. 2003; Reddy et al. 2006) of the Milky Way galaxy. Survey focussed on controlled samples of stars selected based on their kinematic properties to belong either thin disk, thick disk or halo components of the Galaxy. Abundance and kinematic results were obtained for about 400 F-, G- and K- dwarfs. Abundances for 22 elements representing different production mechanisms (α-process, p-capture, Fe-peak, s- and r-process) and sites (AGB, SNIa, SNII) were obtained using high quality and high resolution echelle spectra.