ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|23 pages

Water

chapter 3|43 pages

Geochemical Movement

chapter 4|22 pages

Soil Reservoir

chapter 5|28 pages

Ocean Reservoir

chapter 6|62 pages

Biota and the Biosphere

chapter |2 pages

Epilogue: A Moral Dilemma