Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Investigation of the vertical distribution of sediment contaminants in Pool 2 and Lake Pepin of the Upper Mississippi River after the 1993 flood :
Sampling Purpose: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) collected samples, in 1994, to investigate the effects of the 1993 flood upon vertical distribution of sediment contaminants in the Upper Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix Rivers. Sediment cores were collected and analyzed for volatile matter, organic carbon, acid volatile solids, simultaneously extracted metals, metals, organochlorines, fungicides, and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. All sediment cores were dated by Cesium-137 decay.
Number of Observations (samples) in Data Set: 95
Institution Providing Data: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Data Set No. 2:
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Data source variables
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Sample variables
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Classes of Contaminants (in both data set 2 and other data sets)
Inorganic contaminants:
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Metals, metalloids, nutrients and others
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Simultaneously extracted metals (SEMs)
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Organic contaminants:
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Organochlorine insecticides
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Fungicides
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
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Content manager:Michelle Bartsch
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library/sediments_contaminants/datasets/2.html
Page Contact Information: Contacting the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Page Last Modified:
January 29, 2016
