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. , 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., , **README: Geodatabase of ultramafic soils of the Americas**

**Author**: Catherine Hulshof, Virginia Commonwealth University, [e-mail]

**Abstract**: This is a compiled geospatial dataset in ESRI polygon shapefile format of ultramafic soils of many countries in the Americas showing the location of ultramafic soils in Canada, the United States of America, Guatemala, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana, and Bolivia. The data are derived from nine 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.

**Contents**: The data are in ESRI shapefile format and thus have four components with extensions .shp, .shx, .prj, and .dbf. The .shp file contains the feature geometries, the .prj file contains the geographic coordin...