Microplastics in sediment cores data from the UK continental shelf and slope 2017

Name: Microplastics in sediment cores data from the UK continental shelf and slope 2017
Creator: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

Published by:: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
Last updated:: 19 April 2022
Topic:: Not added
Licence:: Other Licence
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Summary

This dataset contains two CSV files. One CSV file reports locations and technical details for the cores, along with their slices, subsamples and the number of microplastic particles and fibres recorded in each 5g sample processed. Details of how the cores were sampled and processed can be found in the publication and its supporting information.

The second CSV file contains x-y data for the micro-ATR-IR analysis of representative particles picked from some of the filters, to provide some numerical data on polymer types and fractions of Nile Red positive particles that could be positively identified as plastics (positives), those that were biological in origin (false positives) and those that could not be confidently identified. Details of the procedure for this appear below. Images of the particles along with their IR spectra can be found in the ESI accompanying the publication.

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Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-03-31T09:08:30
Access contraints: Not specified
Harvest GUID: CEFASec7a5bd1-6713-46c1-8b4b-818e7bd46db7
Extent: Latitude: 52.4595° to 52.4581°; Longitude: 1.73881° to 1.74086°
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Dataset reference date: 2022-03-24 (publication); 2022-03-31 (revision); 2022-03-22 (creation)
Frequency of update: notPlanned
Responsible party: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) (originator, custodian, distributor)
ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
Metadata language: eng
Source Metadata: XML; HTML

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