Geochemical soil survey of the Netherlands. Atlas of major and trace elements in topsoil and parent material; assessment of natural and anthropegenic enrichment factors

Geochemical surveying is a generic tool to provide high quality, multi-element databases of the Earth’s surface compartments such as soil, sediment, and stream water. Such databases are not only an essential component of environmental knowledge, but also of relevance to other fields such as spatial planning, agricultural practice, epidemiology, and forensic sciences. The principal objective of the geochemical soil survey of the Netherlands is to provide a spatially representative, high quality, multi-element overview of the inorganic soil composition on a regional scale. In the first part of t... Mehr ...