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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Continental US	Alaska

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

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The entire country, 397,609 samples:
- Shapefile with 43 selected fields
  (31.1 MB .ZIP file expands to 312 MB)
- dBase file with all 145 fields
  (58.3 MB .ZIP file expands to 1.2 GB)
Alaska (65,397 samples):
- Shapefile with dBase
  (11.8 MB .ZIP file expands to 198 MB)

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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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