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The natural abundance of elements in the soil parent material and the factors controlling their availability to plants and animals provide major links between geology and human medicine and the health of plants and animals in natural and agricultural ecosystems. This is the rock-soil-plant-animal/human pathway, and it is of major importance in the study of medical geology.
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Alloway, B.J. (2013). Bioavailability of Elements in Soil. In: Selinus, O. (eds) Essentials of Medical Geology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4375-5_15
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