Ground composition data for the southernmost area of Lérida province, NE Spain

Description

More than 3000 physical, chemical and morphological data of soils described between December 1980 and July 1981 in the southernmost part of the province of Lérida, NE Spain, are collected in this dataset. The soils are located between the North parallels 41º 17' to 41º 37' and the East meridians of Madrid 4º 01' to 4º 45'. Most of the soil samples were taken in backhoe dug pits where their profiles were described. The data —presented here in an Excel spreadsheet— come from the book by J. Porta & R. Julià (eds.) published in 1982 with I.S.B.N. 84-5008771-6. Moreover, two chapters were scanned from this book and included in this dataset as “Description.pdf” and “FormationClassification.pdf”. The author did not proofread the galley proofs of these chapters. The data contained in “Description.pdf” were manually transcribed to the excel file “ProfilesLerida03.xlsx”. Care must be taken with the location coordinates given the non-correction of the galley proofs and because the resources available to us 45 years ago were quite rudimentary. The excel file “ProfilesLerida03.xlsx” incorporates the correction of obvious errors in the coordinates and their transformation to ETRS89 from the notations used in 1980-81. The help of Ms. Rosa Gómez-Báguena in the geograhical data is greatly appreciated. This research was possible thanks to the grant PID2021-127170OB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, and the grant TED2021-130303B-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the “European Union NextGeneration EU/PRTR”.

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The two book chapters authored by J. Porta and J. Herrero are presented here, i.e., Description.pdf, and FormationClassification.pdf. The methods and notations are shown at the last two pages of Description.pdf The spreadsheet ProfilesLeri01.xlsx is protected here to avoid unadvertised alteration, but the data can be exported to a new excel file.

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