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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2014 May 3;487:173–186. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.03.131

Table 3.

Lake Michigan sampling sites, physical data and SVOC concentrations

Site Latitude
(°N)		 Longitude
(°W)		 Water depth
(m)		 Distance
from shore
(km)		 Distance to nearest
AOC/industrial/urban areas
(km)		 Sediment type Moisture content
(%)		 OC
(%)		 Σ15PAH
(ng/g dry)		 Σ11NPAH
(ng/g dry)		 Σ6Sterane
(ng/g dry)		 Σ5Hopane
(ng/g dry)
A-1 42.108 86.533 16 3.4 3.8 sand 8.4 0.6 496.9 5.13 9.7 174.4
B-2 42.400 86.450 52 13.3 34.2 silt 60.1 3.5 802.8 10.52 18.1 300.2
B-3 42.400 86.592 64 24.3 42.1 silt 59.2 2.3 831.6 8.20 20.6 256.1
B-4 42.392 87.017 124 53.9 53.5 silt over loam 60.0 3.6 513.0 9.60 17.7 196.2
B-5 42.375 87.350 108 38.0 38.9 silt over loam 49.3 2.7 508.6 9.13 21.3 207.4
B-6 42.375 87.500 84 25.6 26.6 silt over loam 40.6 4.7* 327.3 6.59 11.4 138.9
B-7 42.367 87.667 45 12.0 12.8 silty sand 33.5 0.9 312.8 4.89 6.4 103.1
C-5 42.817 86.833 136 50.8 53.1 silt 64.0 4.6 860.2 17.02 20.8 323.0
C-6 42.795 87.447 105 25.4 44.6 silt over sandy loam 39.1 1.6 421.8 5.23 8.8 113.6
C-7 42.792 87.575 60 15.0 36.8 silt over sandy loam 47.8 2.0 609.5 8.50 15.6 221.2
EG-14 42.378 86.775 98 36.7 37.7 silt 62.0 4.4 1290.8 14.48 36.0 355.0
EG-18 42.293 86.643 60 22.2 23.6 silt 47.4 2.3 588.5 6.18 19.5 255.3
H-15 42.158 87.433 60 22.9 34.1 silty sand 28.4 0.5 332.6 2.91 7.8 102.3
H-22 42.139 86.664 48 14.6 14.8 silt 60.1 2.1 903.1 6.52 24.0 332.6
H-28 42.630 86.265 22 2.9 5.2 medium to coarse sand 18.2 0.3 347.4 5.64 10.0 98.7
H-29 42.630 86.306 32 6.3 8.3 silt 39.7 1.8 364.3 6.85 7.4 114.0
H-30 42.630 86.433 70 16.7 18.6 silt 66.1 4.0 1234.5 18.59 33.3 351.1
H-31 43.041 86.333 45 6.9 21.4 silt, some sand 55.6 3.0 588.9 8.90 15.1 186.0
H-8 42.399 87.771 19 2.6 6.0 silt with some clay 28.9 0.8 451.2 5.73 11.2 116.4
S-2 41.765 87.391 13 8.5 11.7 fine sand 20.6 0.3 398.1 7.81 8.8 125.8
S-3 41.850 87.320 25 19.4 22.7 silty sand 21.6 0.5 212.8 5.01 6.2 97.7
S-4 41.935 87.252 40 30.4 33.7 silty sand 23.8 0.5 315.8 6.85 9.5 127.8
V-1 41.697 87.013 17 1.6 35.9 clay, some sand 18.3 4.6* 329.2 3.74 6.8 111.3
X-1 43.103 86.367 45 7.9 14.7 silt 42.2 1.7 564.1 6.76 10.4 181.1
Mean 41.5 2.2 566.9 8.0 14.8 191.2
Std 17.4 1.5 286.1 3.9 8.2 88.4
Min 8.4 0.3 212.8 2.9 6.2 97.7
Max 66.1 4.7 1290.8 18.6 36.0 355.0

OC: organic carbon. Std: standard deviation.

OC values marked with an asterisk were not used in regression analyses (see Section 2.4).