Mercury Concentrations in Estuarine Sediments, Lavaca and Matagorda Bays, Texas, 1992 |
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1992-Continued Core Water 1992-Continued RMAL Field Bays estuarine system Bottom 20 boxplot Carancahua Bays Clay carbon¹ 74 color length depth complete valves Core Water Field correlation dark-gray data points data-collection sites Date of sample depth Remarks cm depth zone detection limits dredged spoil dredged-spoil end of table Field color length Field sample number fine-grained Footnote at end fragments and complete Grain size¹ percent Hydrogen sulfide Interquartile range kilogram kriging Lavaca and Matagorda Lavaca Bay length depth Remarks light-green Matagorda Bays median total mercury medium-brown medium-gray mg/kg open-water sample areas organic carbon concentration organic Sand Silt oxidized clay oyster reef oyster-shell fragments percent by weight percentile presumed Pleistocene surface RMAL Field sample sample Field color sample number Date sample number sample sample Sample matrix sediment samples ship channel Silty clay Silty sand Texas total mercury concentrations total organic carbon Total organic Sand U.S. Geological Survey variogram Water Field sample µg/kg