Table 2.

Chemical properties of sediment (SED) used in resuspension experiments and collected on the Sfax southern coast (Tunisia, South Mediterranean Sea).

	SED
pH in situ	6.3
Temperature in situ (°C)	31.3
Eh in situ (mV)	203
Water content (% of wet weight)	39.7
Total carbon (% of dry weight)	2.4
Organic carbon (% of dry weight)	1.4
Total nitrogen (% of dry weight)	0.2
Total sulfur (% of dry weight)	0.9
Total hydrogen (% of dry weight)	0.7
P (mg kg−1)	367–15110 (2456)a
Trace element concentrations (mg.kg−1)
As	3.2
Cd	16.4
Co	1.5
Cr	330.8
Mn	113.5
Mo	8.1
Ni	34.9
Pb	0.2
U	19.7
V	25.9

^aData obtained from Naifar et al. (2018).