Europe indicate that baseline concentrations of chemical elements in samples of soil,
humus, stream water and sediments (stream and floodplain) vary spatially by up to several
orders of magnitude, because of geological, climatic and other factors, including inputs from
different human actvities. The EuroGeoSurveys-FOREGS geochemical baseline project
provides European decision-makers with data about the chemical comopsition of the near …