Geodatabase of ultramafic soils of the Americas

This is a compiled geospatial dataset in ESRI polygon shapefile format of ultramafic soils of the Americas showing the location of ultramafic soils in Canada, the United States of America, Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana, and Bolivia. The R code used to compile the dataset as well as an image of the compiled dataset are also included. Methods The data are derived from ten geospatial datasets. Original datasets were subset to include only ultramafic areas, datasets were assigned a common projection (WGS84), attribute tables were reconciled to a common set of fields, and the datasets were combined.