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    • SAFARI 2000 Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Data (Zinke et al.)

    Metadata Updated: September 18, 2025

    The data set contains a subset of the Worldwide Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen (Zinke et al. 1986) data set for southern Africa. The data were obtained from soil surveys by Zinke and soil survey literature. The main samples for laboratory analyses were collected at uniform soil increments and included bulk density determinations. Many samples reported in the literature did not have uniform soil increments or bulk density determinations. Only soil profiles that had been sampled either to a meter in depth or to actual depth were included in this data base from soil survey literature. In literature where bulk densities were absent, densities were estimated by regressions based on organic carbon content of the soil samples associated with the profile using 1800 soil profiles for which bulk densities were known. More information can be found at: ftp://daac.ornl.gov/data/safari2k/soils/Zinke_soil/comp/zinke_readme.pdf.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 18, 2025
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/638
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=s2k_zinke_soil_638&ac=true
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":5.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":5.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":60.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":-35.0},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 483378f5ada2a7211ead52b5eb70bc543be0e12534b5b37728046ba8243150fb
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    Spatial
    Temporal 1940-01-01/1940-01-01

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