Table 1: Sampling locations, date, season, physico-chemical parameters and dissolved trace element concentrations of river water samples collected from the headwaters, upstream and downstream section of the Ganga basin

• Aluminium
• Arsenic
• Barium
• Cadmium
• Caesium
• Chromium
• Cobalt
• Conductivity
• Copper
• DATE TIME
• DEPTH
• ELEVATION
• Event label
• Ganga River
• Geochemistry
• LATITUDE
• LONGITUDE
• Lead
• Lithium
• Location
• Manganese
• Nickel
• Rare earth elements
• River
• Rubidium
• Sample ID
• Season
• Section
• Site
• Strontium
• Temperature
• Vanadium
• Water sample
• dissolved data
• electrical
• pH
• sediment samples
• trace elements
• water
• water temperature

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921892
Related Identifier	https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.921893
Related Identifier	https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009203
Metadata Access	https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.921892

Provenance
Creator	Boral, Soumita ; Sen, Indra Sekhar ; Tripathi, Aditya; Sharma, Bhupendra; Dhar, Sanjukta
Publisher	PANGAEA
Publication Year	2020
Rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess	true

Representation
Resource Type	Dataset
Format	text/tab-separated-values
Size	5278 data points
Discipline	Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage	(78.300W, 25.050S, 87.890E, 31.000N); Ganga, India, Asia
Temporal Coverage Begin	2014-05-12T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End	2017-04-25T00:00:00Z