The Natural Geochemistry of Our Environment shows that the Earth is a water world, whose water is transformed readily from the solid to the liquid to the gaseous state. This book, is an outgrowth of a report prepared in 1979 by Drs. Speidel and Agnew for the U.S. Science, Research, and Technology Subcommittee, provides just such a background to enables one to comprehend the natural system and the way that human activities affect that environment.

This book is the result of a symposium presented at the January 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. It provides an overview of the U.S. strategic mineral situation.