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Concentration of metals in the sediments of Gazi, Makupa and Tudor Creek sampled between February 1985 and September 1986
Citable as data publication
Oteko D.; Dehairs F.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME); Laboratorium voor Analytische Chemie. VUB: Belgium; (2016): Concentration of metals in the sediments of Gazi, Makupa and Tudor Creek sampled between February 1985 and September 1986. https://doi.org/10.14284/140
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Description
Depth distribution of total Al, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb, Ca, Mg, POC, and nitrogen in sediment cores from a series of stations in the Tudor, Makupa and Gazi creeks of the Kenyan coast sampled between February 1985 and September 1986. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Oteko, D. (1987). Analysis of some major and trace metals in the sediments of Gazi, Makupa and Tudor creeks of the Kenya coast: a comparative investigation into the anthropogenic input levels. Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 190 pp. more

Cores from deep water (ST 1 BTC, ST21TC, ST32TC, ST43TC) were sampled by scuba diving by manually pushing the corer into the sediment and cores (ST1CTC, ST5IBTC and ST62BTC) were sampled from the intertidal mud flats extruding below the mangrove canopy. In the laboratory they weresubsampled into sections. Total Al, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ca and Mg were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry (AAS) using a Varian 27AA5 spectrophotometer while Cd and Pb were determined by graphite furnace (flameless) atomic absorption spectrophotometry using a Perkin Elmer AAS 5000 spectrophotometer equiped with AS 40 Sequencer Autosampler.

Scope
Themes:
Environmental quality/pollution
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Chemical analysis, Depth distribution, Man-induced effects, Sediment core, Trace metals, ISW, Kenya, Gazi Creek, ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Makupa Creek, ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek

Geographical coverage
ISW, Kenya, Gazi Creek
ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Makupa Creek
ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek

Temporal coverage
14 February 1985 - 8 September 1986

Parameters

Aluminium (Al)
C:N ratio
Cadmium (Cd)
Calcium (Ca)
Copper (Cu)
Iron (Fe)
Lead (Pb)
Magnesium (Mg)
Manganese (Mn)
Nitrogen (N) in soil
Particulate organic carbon (POC)

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME), moredata creator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen & Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen; Vakgroep Chemie; Analytical, Environmental and Geochemistry (AMGC), moredata creatordata creator

Publication
Based on this dataset
Oteko, D. (1987). Analysis of some major and trace metals in the sediments of Gazi, Makupa and Tudor creeks of the Kenya coast: a comparative investigation into the anthropogenic input levels. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 190 pp., more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2014-04-22
Information last updated: 2016-05-11
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