Defining urban soil geochemical backgrounds: A review for application to the French context

S Belbèze, J Rohmer, P Négrel, D Guyonnet - Journal of Geochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban soil is the “memory” of cities, as the sequence of deposited materials originates from
the various stages of a city's life cycle, through a complex process of urban soil …

GEMAS: Establishing geochemical background and threshold for 53 chemical elements in European agricultural soil

C Reimann, K Fabian, M Birke, P Filzmoser… - Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
The GEMAS (geochemical map** of agricultural soil) project collected 2108 Ap horizon
soil samples from regularly ploughed fields in 33 European countries, covering 5.6 million …

The concept of compositional data analysis in practice—total major element concentrations in agricultural and grazing land soils of Europe

C Reimann, P Filzmoser, K Fabian, K Hron… - Science of the total …, 2012 - Elsevier
Applied geochemistry and environmental sciences invariably deal with compositional data.
Classically, the original or log-transformed absolute element concentrations are studied …

[HTML][HTML] Lead and stable lead isotopes as tracers of soil pollution and human health risk assessment in former industrial cities of Hungary

G Abbaszade, D Tserendorj, N Salazar-Yanez… - Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lead is a toxic heavy metal that has become much more prevalent in the environment since
industrialization and causes considerable health problems. The current study investigated …

GEMAS: Cobalt, Cr, Cu and Ni distribution in agricultural and grazing land soil of Europe

S Albanese, M Sadeghi, A Lima, D Cicchella… - Journal of geochemical …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the framework of the GEMAS project, 2211 samples of agricultural soil (Ap, 0–20 cm,
regularly ploughed fields), and 2118 samples from land under permanent grass cover (Gr, 0 …

Lead and lead isotopes in agricultural soils of Europe–The continental perspective

C Reimann, B Flem, K Fabian, M Birke… - Applied …, 2012 - Elsevier
Lead isotopes are widely used for age dating, for tracking sources of melts, sediments, Pb
products, food and animals and for studying atmospheric Pb contamination. For the first time …

GEMAS: Cadmium distribution and its sources in agricultural and grazing land soil of Europe—Original data versus clr-transformed data

M Birke, C Reimann, U Rauch, A Ladenberger… - Journal of Geochemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Over 4000 agricultural and grazing land soil samples were collected for the “Geochemical
Map** of Agricultural and Grazing Land Soil of Europe”(GEMAS) project carried out by the …

GEMAS: Chemical weathering of silicate parent materials revealed by agricultural soil of Europe

P Négrel, A Ladenberger, C Reimann, A Demetriades… - Chemical geology, 2023 - Elsevier
The chemical composition of soil represents to a large extent the primary mineralogy and
geochemistry of the source bedrock, the effects of pre-and post-depositional weathering and …

Interactive impacts of microplastics and arsenic on agricultural soil and plant traits

M Grifoni, E Pellegrino, L Arrighetti, S Bronco… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability of microplastics (MPs) to interact with environmental pollutants is currently of
great concern due to the increasing use of plastic. Agricultural soils are sinks for …

Interpretation of multivariate outliers for compositional data

P Filzmoser, K Hron, C Reimann - Computers & Geosciences, 2012 - Elsevier
Compositional data—and most data in geochemistry are of this type—carry relative rather
than absolute information. For multivariate outlier detection methods this implies that not the …