Geochemical analysis of rock samples collected and analyzed by the USGS. This dataset includes and supersedes rock data formerly released as "Geochemistry of igneous rocks in the US extracted from the PLUTO database". The database contains 414,304 records.
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About the database tables and fields
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Periodic table of elements showing relevant fields in the database