Distribution of Elements/Parameters in Agricultural and Grazing Land Soil of Europe

The GEMAS maps provide useful harmonised data for regional-scale bedrock (parent material) geochemical mapping and contribute to the geologist's knowledge about the average composition of the UCC. The GEMAS data are needed for evidence-based political decision-making in Europe. Apart from staisfying the EU REACH regulation on the chemical composition agricultural and grazing land soil, they will find applications in forensic science, medical geology, mineral exploration, and in further wide-ranging academic research. They can also be used as a data set for ground-thruting of remotely-sensed satellite observations that relate to soil composition. Last, but not least, they provide the farming community with a comparative database about soil quality, fertillity and the impact of certain farming practices at the European scale.