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Copyright information. The data sets of the Geochemical Atlas of Europe were produced by the member organisations of the Forum of the European Geological Surveys (FOREGS) Geochemical Baseline Mapping programme, later the Association of the Geological Surveys of The European Union (the EuroGeoSurveys), and published by the Geological Survey of Finland. See publication 'Salminen, R. (ed.) 2005. Geochemical Atlas of Europe. Part 1: Background Information, Methodology and Maps. Espoo: Geological Survey of Finland' for details.

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Please note that coordinates have been transformed from national coordinate systems to geographical coordinates at the continental scale. The data reflect typical background concentrations in the selected sample media at the continental scale. However, concentrations of elements may vary within small distances and concentrations of elements in stream water in particular may vary seasonally and from year to year.

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