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Natural concentrations of heavy metals in soils depend primarily on the type and chemistry of the parent materials from which the soils are derived. However, anthropogenic inputs may lead to concentrations highly exceeding those from natural sources. Average concentrations of some heavy metals in the Earth’s crust, in some sediments and generally in soils are shown in Table 13.
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Mirsal, I.A. (2004). Major types of soil pollutants. In: Soil Pollution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05400-0_6
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