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Geochemical and mineralogical data for soils of the conterminous United States

Systematic geochemical and mineralogical survey of soil horizons analyzed using a consistent set of methods, sample spacing 1 per 1,600 sq km.

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C-horizon XLS 5.6M bytes
ds-801.zip Shapefile 1.8M bytes
ds-801-csv.zip CSV 1.5M bytes

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USGS Data Series 801

Geochemical and mineralogical data for soils of the conterminous United States

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