Gypsum from soils of chesas, NE Spain

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We show data of soils developed on the outcropping gypseous nucleus of the Barbastro-Balaguer anticline, NE Spain. Chesas is the local name for the lands of this outcrop that stand out by their whitish tones. The data collected here come from soils of the municipalities —from West to East— of Peraltilla, Almunia de San Juan, Tamarite, Torá, and Iborra. The analytical methods plus details of the landscape and sampling sites can be found in: (i) the book entitled “Morfología y génesis de suelos sobre yesos” (http://hdl.handle.net/10261/84695), and (ii) the article entitled “Salada Farrachuela, a saline wetland in Tamarite de Litera, Spain” (DOI: 10.29077/bol.114.ce05.herrero). Here we present a compressed zip file with 302 TIFF images corresponding to 151 thin sections of these soils. Most of the sections —with the prevalent size of 13.5 × 5.7 cm— were manufactured by the first author in the Institut National Agronomique de Paris-Grignon under the technical supervision of Mr. P. Guilloré, in the context of a scholarship granted by the Government of France for working in the lab of Dr. N. Fédoroff. The surviving thin sections from chesas are archived and scanned at the EEAD-CSIC in Zaragoza, Spain. Their scans are compiled in the file “Chesas_Thin_sections_scans.zip”. Several dozen micrographs of the chesas thin sections appeared in the abovementioned book published in 1991 (http://hdl.handle.net/10261/84695). The file “Chesas_Fig.captions1991-01.xlsx” presents a tentative English translation of the 154 Figure captions for the micrographs and the other figures in the book. Documents: Chesas_Thin_sections_scans.zip Chesas_Fig.captions1991-01.xlsx Funding We acknowledge 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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