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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Pollut. 2018 Nov 13;245:582–589. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.10.126

Table 2.

Texture and total organic carbon content (TOC) of sediment samples from cores taken from the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site (%)

Core Depth (cm) Year TOC Particle Size Distribution
Clay Silt Sand
8C 5 2002 7.1 8.9 49.2 41.9
13 1995 9.3 10.3 58.3 31.4
25 1984 10.2 9.9 63.1 27.0
37 1974 7.4 7.0 48.8 44.2
49 1962 6.7 9.0 56.2 34.8

3C 9 1991 2.9 8.1 53.1 38.7
17 1974 3.2 8.0 50.8 41.2
25 1959 3.5 10.9 60.0 29.1
37 1937 2.9 7.8 44.5 47.7
45 1919 2.6 6.3 43.3 50.4