History and evaluation of national-scale geochemical data sets for the United States

Six national-scale, or near national-scale, geochemical data sets for soils or stream sediments exist for the United States. The earliest of these, here termed the ‘Shacklette’ data set, was generated by a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) project conducted from 1961 to 1975. This project used soil coll...

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Main Authors: David B. Smith, Steven M. Smith, John D. Horton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-03-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987112000886