GEMAS – Chemistry of Europe’s Agricultural soils, Original dataset and DVD content

GEMAS (Geochemical Mapping of Agricultural and Grazing Land Soil in Europe) is a cooperative project between the Geochemistry Expert Group of EuroGeoSurveys and Eurometeaux. In total, more than 60 international organisations and institutions worldwide were involved in the implementation of the project. During 2008 and 2009, a total of 2219 samples of agricultural (arable land soils, 0 – 20 cm, Ap samples) and 2127 samples of grazing land (pasture land soils, 0 – 10 cm, Gr samples) soil were collected at a density of 1 site/2 500 km2 each from 33 European countries, covering an area of 5,600,000 km2. All samples were analysed for 52 chemical elements after an aqua regia extraction, 41 by XRF (total), TC and TOC. In addition, the agricultural soil samples were analysed for 57 elements in a mobile metal ion (MMI®) extraction and Pb isotopes. All analytical results were subject to tight external quality control procedures. The GEMAS project thus provides for the first time fully harmonised data for element concentrations and bioavailability of the elements at the continental (European) scale. The original data stored on the DVD attached to the Geol. Jb. B 102 (*.xls & *.pdf; approx.. 14 MB) as well as the complete content of the DVD (dataset, maps & graphics, statistical tables, ...) in two formats (ISO image and complete content as ZIP file, each approx. 2 GB) are available for download.
 
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(2021) . GEMAS – Chemistry of Europe’s Agricultural soils, Original dataset and DVD content. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/20607a6b-f412-4777-9d43-67d734677d57
 

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20607a6b-f412-4777-9d43-67d734677d57   XML
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  • Geoscientific information
 

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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.4 ( Theme )
  • Atlas
  • Boden
  • Landwirtschaft
  • soil
  • agriculture
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Keywords ( Theme )
  • GEMAS
  • Geochemie
  • Geochemische Daten
  • Ackerlandboden
  • Weidelandboden
  • Elementkonzentration
  • geochemistry
  • geochemical data
  • dataset
  • arable land soil
  • pasture land soil
  • element concentration
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  • Europa
  • Europe
 
 

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Date ( Publication )
2021-03-03
 

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Data DVD from Reimann, C., Birke, M., Demetriades, A., Filzmoser, P. & O'Connor, P. (eds.) (2014): Chemistry of Europe's Agricultural Soils, Part A: Methodology and Interpretation of the GEMAS Data Set. (Geologisches Jahrbuch). Vol. B 102: p. 523; Stuttgart (Schweizerbart Science Publishers). The GEMAS Project Team: S. Albanese, M. Andersson, R. Baritz, M.J. Batista, A. Bel-Ian, D. Cicchella, B. De Vivo, W. De Vos, M. ?uriš, A. Dusza-Dobek, O.A. Eggen, M. Eklund, V. Ernsten, P. Filzmoser, D.M.A. Flight, S. Forrester, U. Fügedi, A. Gilcucis, V. Gregorauskiene, W. De Groot, A. Gulan, E. Haslinger, P. Hayoz, J. Hoogewerff, H. Hrvatovic, S. Husnjak, L. Janik, G. Jordan, M. Kaminari, J. Kirby, V. Klos, P. Kwe?ko, L. Kuti, A. Lima, J. Locutura, P. Lucivjansky, A. Mann, D. Mackovych, M. McLaughlin, B. I. Malyuk, R. Maquil, R.G. Meuli, G. Mol, P. Négrel, P. O’Connor, R.T. Ottesen, A. Pasnieczna, V. Petersell, S. Pfleiderer, M. Po?avi?, C. Prazeres, S. Radusinovi?, I. Salpeteur, R. Scanlon, A. Schedl, A. Scheib, I. Schoeters, P. Šef?ik, E. Sellersjö, I. Slaninka, J.M. Soriano-Disla, A. Šorša, R. Svrkota, T. Stafilov, T. Tarvainen, V. Tendavilov, P. Valera, V. Verougstraete, D. Vidojevi?, Z. Zomeni, A. Zissimos
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Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe/Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
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gemas@bgr.de
 

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Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe/Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
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gemas@bgr.de
 

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Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
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geodatenmanagement@bgr.de
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2025-03-10
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