# Mercury (Hg) concentration in topsoils, Sep. 2007

Maps of estimated total mercury concentrations in soils using 1588 geo-referenced topsoil samples from the FOREGS Geochemical database. The concentrations were interpolated using block regression-kriging over the 26 European countries that contributed to the database. 
			
			Heavy metal contents are expressed in mg kg-1.
			
			This metadata record is adapted from the orginal one received from JRC.https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/830a4b29-388f-4406-ae8c-8ffcc8212041


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