Scientific Color Schemes

Details

The following (qualitative) color schemes are available:

stratigraphy: International Chronostratigraphic Chart (175 colors).
land: AVHRR Global Land Cover Classification (14 colors).
soil: FAO Reference Soil Groups (24 colors).

References

Jones, A., Montanarella, L. & Jones, R. (Ed.) (2005). Soil atlas of Europe. Luxembourg: European Commission, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. 128 pp. ISBN: 92-894-8120-X.

Tol, P. (2021). Colour Schemes. SRON. Technical Note No. SRON/EPS/TN/09-002, issue 3.2. URL: https://personal.sron.nl/~pault/data/colourschemes.pdf

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