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Soil contamination by heavy metals

Topics: Soil , Land use ,

Concentration of Pb in topsoils (0-25cm)

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Only randomly selected enrichment value dots shown for Austria, Bulgaria and Slovakia.

Publish date:: 01 Jan 2002
Last upload:: 31 Jan 2006
Tags:: sustainableuse2005 | lead | soil | State and Outlook 2005 - Part A | metal | State and Outlook 2005 | contamination | agriculture
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency.
Source:: 1)Baltic Soil Survey: Total concentrations of major and selected trace elements in arable soils from ten countries around the Baltic Sea. The Science of the Total Environment 257, (2-3), 155-170; 2)FOREGS Geochemical Baseline Mapping Programme 1998-2004 (http://www.gsf.fi/foregs/geochem/index.htm): Salminen, R. (ed.). 2005. Geochemical atlas of Europe. Part 1: Background information, methodology and maps. Espoo: Geological Survey of Finland. 525; p 3)EIONET data request 2003; Reimann, C., Siewers, U., Tarvainen, T., Bityukova, L., Eriksson, J., Gilucis, A., Gregorauskiene, V., Lukashev, V., Matinian, N.N. & Pasieczna, A. 2000.
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