Associations of dominant parent material in Europe 1:15,000,000

For the legend-building of the soil regions map (EUSR5000), areas with similar climate (EUCA15000) are further subdivided into areas with similar parent material, thus with a similar geologic paleogeographic development. Because the geological conditions (nature of parent material) are key factors for soil formation, it must be characterized at the level of the soil regions as well. In order to represent parent material at the Europe-wide continental level, data from small-scale geological maps were re-interpreted and aggregated to parent material associations 1:15 Mio. The different rocks are summarized by geological formation, at the same time following the main class- or group-level from the List of Parent Material according to Finke et al.(2001). As a result, 18 rock complexes were received and evaluated in respect of their effect on soil formation. Here it must be pointed out that soils are not formed on the rock itself but on weathering products mostly consisting of several layers and with numerous external components incorporated by redeposition.

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(2025) . Associations of dominant parent material in Europe 1:15,000,000. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fdcdd096-d8f6-4a98-bd03-861c9772b3b1

Identification

Data identification

Citation

Alternate title: EUPM15000

Date ( Publication ): 2025-09-04

Date ( Creation ): 2005-08-09

Edition: 1.0

Identifier: acd77c46-c706-ee1b-739d-45181dc7c397

Identifier: https://doi.org/10.25928/EUPM15000_1.0

Author

Baritz, Rainer, Dr.

Author

Fuchs, Michael, Dr.

Author

Hartwich, Reinhard, Dr.

Author

Krug, Dietmar

Author

Richter, Stefanie

Status: completed Completed

Point of contact

Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

Stilleweg 2 Hannover 30655 DE

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Soil
Geology

Keywords ( Theme )

Boden
Soil map
Europäische Union
European Union
Ausgangsgestein
Parent material
Soil parent material associations
Gruppen der Bodenausgangsgesteine
Soil physical properties
Bodenphysikalische Eigenschaften
Geological process
Soil process
Soil resource
Soil structure
Soil texture
Soil fertility

Keywords ( Place )

Europa
Europe

Legal constraints

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Legal constraints

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: General Standard Terms and Conditions (GSTC) of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR). The LBEG or the BGR is the owner of the rights of exploitation for software, digital data, and other products protected by copyright, as well as know-how. The contractual partner receives a simple right of use for the types of use defined in the following. The right to duplicate and present is also transferred. The rights which are not transferred include in particular the right to make accessible to the public, unless the contractual partner makes the aforementioned accessible to the public within the framework of an administrative procedure when acting as a participating authority in said administrative procedure. For the purpose of reuse the provided information has to be quoted as follows: BGR [Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe] (2005). Soil Regions Map of the European Union and Adjacent Countries 1:5,000,000 (Version 2.0). Special Publication, Ispra. EU catalogue number S.P.I.05.134.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 15000000

Metadata language: eng English

Character set: utf8 UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Distribution

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PDF (n/a )
Shapefile (n/a )
GeoPackage (n/a )

OnLine resource: EUPM15000 (PDF)
EUPM15000 im Format Adobe Acrobat Datei

OnLine resource: EUPM15000 (Shapefile)
EUPM15000 im Format ESRI Shape

OnLine resource: EUPM15000 (GeoPackage)
EUPM15000 im Format GeoPackage

Quality

Data quality

Scope

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Die Datenquellen sind in Hartwich et al. (2005) gelistet und erläutert: - Europaweite thematische Karten und Datensätze - Nationale/regionale Bodenkarten und Expertenwissen von Mitgliedern des European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN) - The data sources are listed, explained and cited in Hartwich et al. (2005): - Europe-wide thematic maps and data sets - national/regional soil maps and expert knowledge from members of the European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN)