Microplastics accumulation in a glacimarine sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland

The dataset provides information on microplastics particles identified in a sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland, collected in August 2015 and dated back to 1930. This sediment core was used for the reconstruction of microplastic accumulation in the Anthropocene. The sediment layers were dated ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Parga Martínez, Karla B, Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest, Posth, Nicole, da Silva, Vitor, Strand, Jakob
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA
Subjects:
Age
Anthropocene
Arctic
DEPTH
sediment/rock
Disko_Bay_Core
Disko Bay
Greenland
Event label
Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in combination with automated polymer identification [SIMPLE software]
FTIR SIMPLE software
marine sediment
Mass
Microplastic
Microplastic abundance
Microplastic particles
Microplastics
Polymer
RUMC
Rumohr corer
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972635
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Summary:The dataset provides information on microplastics particles identified in a sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland, collected in August 2015 and dated back to 1930. This sediment core was used for the reconstruction of microplastic accumulation in the Anthropocene. The sediment layers were dated radiometically (Lead-210 and Americium-241), extracted and identified via µ-FTIR.The table contains particle count, mass, polymer type, number of particles per polymer type, sediment layer (depth), which corresponds to a specific year, and microplastics accumulation in number of particles/Kg d.w. This datasets is complementary to https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972712, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972713, and the limits of detection are in https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972709.

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