Occurrence of Vanadium in Belgian and European Alluvial Soils

Table 4

Summary statistics for total V concentrations (in mg kg⁻¹), based on Belgian (this study) and European [28] data. Standard deviation is reported within brackets. n: number of samples.

dataset	area	mean	median	min	max	n
Belgian samples	3 Belgian floodplains	69 (43)	53	18	301	206
	floodplain of the Geul	45 (6)	46	30	57	75
	floodplain of the Grote Beek	87 (55)	66	28	301	94
	floodplain of the Leie	71 (28)	69	18	160	37
FOREGS	Europe (XRF)	59 (35)	56	1	266	749
	Europe (aqua regia)	56				747