Comparing results from two continental geochemical surveys to world soil composition and deriving Predicted Empirical Global Soil (PEGS2) reference values

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 319-320, Issue , 2012, Pages 269-276

  De Caritat, Patrice ^a   Reimann, Clemens ^b   Bastrakov, E ^c   Bowbridge, D ^c   Boyle, P ^c   Briggs, S ^c   Brown, D ^c   Brown, M ^c   Brownlie, K ^c   Burrows, P ^c   Burton, G ^c   Byass, J ^c   de Caritat, P ^c   Chanthapanya, N ^c   Cooper, M ^c   Cranfield, L ^c   Curtis, S ^c   Denaro, T ^c   Dhnaram, C ^c   Dhu, T ^c   Diprose, G ^c   Fabris, A ^c   Fairclough, M ^c   Fanning, S ^c   Fidler, R ^c   Fitzell, M ^c   Flitcroft, P ^c   Fricke, C ^c   Fulton, D ^c   Furlonger, J ^c   Gordon, G ^c   Green, A ^c   Green, G ^c   Greenfield, J ^c   Harley, J ^c   Heawood, S ^c   Hegvold, T ^c   Henderson, K ^c   House, E ^c   Husain, Z ^c   Krsteska, B ^c   Lam, J ^c   Langford, R ^c   Lavigne, T ^c   Linehan, B ^c   Livingstone, M ^c   Lukss, A ^c   Maier, R ^c   Makuei, A ^c   McCabe, L ^c   McDonald, P ^c   McIlroy, D ^c   McIntyre, D ^c   Morris, P ^c   O'Connell, G ^c   Pappas, B ^c   Parsons, J ^c   Petrick, C ^c   Poignand, B ^c   Roberts, R ^c   Ryle, J ^c   Seymon, A ^c   Sherry, K ^c   Skinner, J ^c   Smith, M ^c   Strickland, C ^c   Sutton, S ^c   Swindell, R ^c   Tait, H ^c   Tang, J ^c   Thomson, A ^c   Thun, C ^c   Uppill, B ^c   Wall, K ^c   Watkins, J ^c   Watson, T ^c   Webber, L ^c   Whiting, A ^c   Wilford, J ^c   Wilson, T ^c   Wygralak, A ^c   Albanese, S ^c   Andersson, M ^c   Arnoldussen, A ^c   Baritz, R ^c   Batista, M J ^c   Bel lan, A ^c   Birke, M ^c   Cicchella, D ^c   Demetriades, A ^c   Dinelli, E ^c   DeVivo, B ^c   DeVos, W ^c   Duris, M ^c   Dusza Dobek, A ^c   Eggen, O A ^c   Eklund, M ^c   Ernstsen, V ^c   Filzmoser, P ^c   Finne, T E ^c   Flight, D ^c   Forrester, S ^c   Fuchs, M ^c   Fugedi, U ^c   Gilucis, A ^c   Gosar, M ^c   Gregorauskiene, V ^c   Gulan, A ^c   Halamic, J ^c   Haslinger, E ^c   Hayoz, P ^c   Hobiger, G ^c   Hoffmann, R ^c   Hoogewerff, J ^c   Hrvatovic, H ^c   Husnjak, S ^c   Janik, L ^c   Johnson, C C ^c   Jordan, G ^c   Kirby, J ^c   Kivisilla, J ^c   Klos, V ^c   Krone, F ^c   Kwecko, P ^c   Kuti, L ^c   Ladenberger, A ^c   Lima, A ^c   Locutura, J ^c   Lucivjansky, P ^c   Mackovych, D ^c   Malyuk, B I ^c   Maquil, R ^c   McLaughlin, M ^c   Meuli, R G ^c   Miosic, N ^c   Mol, G ^c   Negrel P ^c   O'Connor, P ^c   Oorts, K ^c   Ottesen, R T ^c   Pasieczna, A ^c   Petersell, V ^c   Pfleiderer, S ^c   Ponavic, M ^c   Prazeres, C ^c   Rauch, U ^c   Reimann, C ^c   Salpeteur, I ^c   Schedl, A ^c   Scheib, A ^c   Schoeters, I ^c   Sefcik, P ^c   Sellersjo E ^c   Skopljak, F ^c   Slaninka, I ^c   Sorsa A ^c   Srvkota, R ^c   Stafilov, T ^c   Tarvainen, T ^c   Trendavilov, V ^c   Valera, P ^c   Verougstraete, V ^c   Vidojevic, D ^c   Zissimos, A M ^c   Zomeni, Z ^c   more..

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Critical Zone; Geochemistry; Global soil composition; Major elements; Regolith; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DATA; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; AQUA REGIA; AUSTRALIA; AVERAGE VALUES; CRITICAL ZONE; DATA SETS; ELEMENTS IN SOIL; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; LOSS ON IGNITION; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MAJOR OXIDES; MEDIAN CONCENTRATION; MGO; REFERENCE VALUES; REGOLITH; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL COMPOSITION; SOIL SAMPLE; TIO; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST;

CESIUM; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LEAD; LITHOLOGY; MANGANESE; MANGANESE OXIDE; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; RUBIDIUM; SODIUM; SOIL SURVEYS; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCONIUM;

SOILS;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL CRUST; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIATION; OXIDE; REGOLITH; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENT; UPPER CRUST;

EID: 84861503408     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.033     Document Type: Article

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