Environmental geochemical maps of Italy from the FOREGS database

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 267-277

  De Vivo, Benedetto ^a   Lima, Annamaria ^a   Bove, Maria A ^a   Albanese, Stefano ^a   Cicchella, Domenico ^b   Sabatini, Giuseppe ^c   Di Lella, Luigi A ^c   Protano, Giuseppe ^c   Riccobono, Franceso ^c   Frizzo, Pietro ^d   Raccagni, Lorenzo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Background baseline concentrations; Geochemical atlas; Geochemical mapping

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; DECISION MAKING; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; MAPPING; SOILS;

ELEMENT ABUNDANCES; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; GEOCHEMICAL ATLAS; GEOCHEMICAL MAPPING; GEOCHEMICAL MAPS; GOVERNMENT DECISIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

DATA STREAMS;

ATLAS; BACKGROUND LEVEL; BASELINE CONDITIONS; DATABASE; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MAPPING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 49549090844     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/08-175     Document Type: Article

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