Microplastics size class and fractions in a glacimarine sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland

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The dataset contains information on microplastics particle size and size fractions throughout a sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland, collected in August 2015 and dated back to 1930. Each sediment layer (depth) corresponds to a Lead-210 year categorized as Pre-plastic Boom (before 1950) and Post-Plastic Boom (after 1950). The polymer type, major and minor dimensions and the score were obtained during µ-FTIR data processing through the software sIMple. Particle size were categorized as small (20 - 100 µm) and large (>100µm) and further divided intro size fractions ((1) 20-50µm, (2) 50-100µm, (3) 100-250µm, (4) 250-500µm, (5) ≥500µm). This datasets is complementary to https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972635, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972713, and the limits of detection are in https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972709.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972712
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01768-y
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972709
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972635
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.972713
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.972712
Provenance
Creator Parga Martínez, Karla B ORCID logo; Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest ORCID logo; Posth, Nicole; da Silva, Vitor; Strand, Jakob ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions https://doi.org/10.13039/100010665 Crossref Funder ID 801199 RECORD: An anthropogenic archive of plastic pollution in Greenland
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 9576 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-53.030 LON, 69.031 LAT); Disko Bay, Greenland