Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data

Geochemical analyses of water 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 335,547 records.

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Continental US	Alaska

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http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/nurewtr?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1

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Notes on using these data within ArcGIS

Get the entire data set

• The entire country, 335,547 samples:
  • Shapefile with 50 selected data fields(22.3 .ZIP file expands to 315 MB)
  • dBase file with all 161 data fields(38 MB .ZIP file expands to 1.1 GB)
  • CSV file with all 161 data fields(24 MB .ZIP file expands to 183 MB)
• Alaska (64,400 samples):
  • Shapefile with dBase(7.7 MB .ZIP file expands to 213 MB)

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Metadata:

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About the database fields

• Database structure (tables and field categories)

Source of the database:

USGS Open-File Report 97-492

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

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/ofr-97-0492/

Detailed documentation of the original database:

NURE manual

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