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Geochemistry of sediments in the US from the NURE-HSSR database

Geochemical analyses of sediment samples throughout the U.S. collected by the hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance (HSSR) phase of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) program. This database contains 397,625 records.

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nuresed.zip (Shapefile entire country, 397,609 samples with 43 selected fields 31.1 MB .ZIP file expands to 312 MB)

nuresed-dbf.zip (dBase file entire country, 397,609 samples with all 145 fields 58.3 MB .ZIP file expands to 1.2 GB)

nuresed-csv.zip (CSV file entire country, 397,609 samples with all 145 fields 37.6 MB .ZIP file expands to 224 MB)

nuresed-fUS02.zip (Shapefile Alaska (65,397 samples) with dBase 11.8 MB .ZIP file expands to 198 MB)

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About the database tables and fields

Table and field descriptions by category

Detailed documentation of the original database, including methods of analysis.

Publication

USGS Open-File Report 97-492

Reformatted data from the National Uranium Resource Evaluation (NURE) Hydrogeochemical and Stream Sediment Reconnaissance (HSSR) Program

Related data

USGS data release 10.5066/F7765DHF

Reanalysis of Selected Archived NURE-HSSR Sediment and Soil Samples from Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah (ver. 3.0, October 2018)
USGS Open File Report 2004-1001

National Geochemical Survey database

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