RiverElements: Elements in River Water Samples

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Description

Concentrations of elements in river water samples from upstate NY

Format

A dataset with 12 observations on the following 27 variables.

River	One of four rivers: Grasse, Oswegatchie, Raquette, or St. Regis
Site	Location: 1=UpStream, 2=MidStream, 3=Downstream
Al	Aluminum
Ba	Barium
Br	Bromine
Ca	Calcium
Ce	Cerium
Cu	Copper
Dy	Dysprosium
Er	Erbim
Fe	Iron
Gd	Gadolinium
Ho	Holmum
K	Potassium
La	Lathanum
Li	Lithium
Mg	Magnesium
Mn	Manganese
Nd	Neodymium
Pr	Proseyodymium
Rb	Rubidium
Si	Silicon
Sr	Strontium
Y	Yttrium
Yb	Ytterbium
Zn	Zinc
Zr	Zirconium

Details

Some geologists were interested in the water chemistry of rivers in upstate New York. They took water samples at three different locations in four rivers (Grasse, Oswegatchie, Raquette, and St. Regis). The sampling sites were chosen to investigate how the composition of the water changes as it flows from the source to the mouth of each river. The sampling sites were labeled as upstream, midstream, and downstream. This dataset contains the concentrations (parts per million) of a variety of elements in those water samples. The dataset RiverIron contains the information for iron (FE) alone, along with the log of the concentration.

Source

Thanks to Dr. Jeff Chiarenzelli of the St. Lawrence University Geology Department for the data.

References

Chiarenzelli, Lock, Cady, Bregani and Whitney, "Variation in river multi-element chemistry related to bedrock buffering: an example from the Adirondack region of northern New York, USA", Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 67, Number 1 (2012), 189-204

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