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. 2014 Dec 10;5:437. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00437

Table 1.

Sediment contamination data and respective sediment quality guideline quotients (SQG-Qs) per sediment sample.

Area
 Sado 1
 Sado 2
Site R* N1** N2* S1* S2*
Metal (μg/g)
      Metalloid As 0.34 ± 0.26 23.98 ± 0.48 19.7 ± 5.21 26.44 ± 2.68 25.02 ± 8.84
Se 1.84 ± 0.84 1.21 ± 0.02 1.92 ± 1.45 0.59 ± 0.21 0.72 ± 0.08
      Metal Cr 2.36 ± 0.36 80.73 ± 1.61 77.67 ± 4.57 62.22 ± 4.45 87.61 ± 2.97
Ni 4.10 ± 1.66 33.30 ± 0.67 16.67 ± 1.1 17.15 ± 1.21 22.79 ± 9.47
Cu 4.51 ± 1.05 172.72 ± 3.45 178.64 ± 7.01 74.15 ± 13.16 92.3 ± 5.63
Zn 13.10 ± 1.51 364.83 ± 7.30 327.51 ± 1.16 269.79 ± 7.81 385.11 ± 35.69
Cd 0.03 ± 0.02 0.26 ± 0.01 0.27 ± 0.03 0.33 ± 0.13 0.43 ± 0.19
Pb 3.50 ± 0.48 55.19 ± 1.10 56.45 ± 3.1 25.3 ± 0.91 32.7 ± 1.21
Organic (ng/g)
tPAH 19.60 ± 3.33 1 365.20 ± 232.08 1.076.98 ± 183.09 215.03 ± 36.55 82.47 ± 14.02
tDDT 0.02 ± 0.00 0.37 ± 0.06 1.22 ± 0.21 0.21 ± 0.04 0.13 ± 0.02
tPCB 0.05 ± 0.01 7.91 ± 1.34 5.37 ± 0.91 0.26 ± 0.04 0.27 ± 0.05
SQG-Q SQG-Qmetal 0.04 0.79 0.68 0.62 0.49
SQG-Qorganic 0.00 0.09 0.06 0.01 0.00
SQG-Qtotal 0.02 0.33 0.37 0.31 0.25
Impact status Unimpacted Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate