Table 1. Concentrations of the Different Types of Micro/Nanoplastics Observed in the Surface Snow and Snowpit Samplesa.
melted
snow |
filtered snow (0.2 μm) |
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sample | match | score | quantity [ng/mL] | match | score | quantity [ng/mL] |
snowpit 2017, depth of 2.6 m | PET | 61.5 | 7.0 | |||
PPC | 64.4 | 16.5 | ||||
snowpit 2017, depth of 2.8 m | PET | 65.8 ± 3.1 | 22.9 ± 13.9 | PET | 65.6 ± 7.7 | 18.5 ± 1.5 |
snowpit 2017, depth of 3.0 m | PET | 78.2 ± 14.2 | 5.6 ± 0.9 | |||
PPC | 60.9 ± 2.4 | 10.8 ± 4.1 | ||||
PVC | 62.6 ± 5.4 | 6.9 ± 0.2 | ||||
surface snow 2017-03-20 | n/a | n/a | PET | 81.4 ± 7.1 | 4.6 ± 0.9 | |
surface snow 2017-03-23 | n/a | n/a | PET | 60.4 ± 9.7 | 18.5 ± 2.2 | |
surface snow 2017-03-26 | n/a | n/a | PET? | 57.1 ± 1.5 | 23.6 ± 3.0 | |
surface snow 2017-03-29 | n/a | n/a | PET | 70.0 ± 1.7 | 12.1 ± 2.3 | |
surface snow 2017-04-01 | n/a | n/a | PET | 62.7 ± 2.5 | 13.8 ± 2.3 |
Not corrected with an underestimation factor of ∼6.7 (see Materials and Methods). Errors represent standard deviation over the triplicate of all filtered samples and duplicates for melted snow samples, except the pit sample 2.6 M (single run). All the match scores can be found in the Supporting Information.