<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><resource xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.3/metadata.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4"><identifier identifierType="DOI">10.1594/PANGAEA.921409</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName>Waqas, Atif</creatorName><givenName>Atif</givenName><familyName>Waqas</familyName><nameIdentifier schemeURI="http://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-6160-0961</nameIdentifier></creator><creator><creatorName>Neumeier, Urs</creatorName><givenName>Urs</givenName><familyName>Neumeier</familyName></creator><creator><creatorName>Rochon, André</creatorName><givenName>André</givenName><familyName>Rochon</familyName></creator></creators><titles><title>Seasonal and spatial distributions of grain size and organic matter content across an intertidal area at St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada</title></titles><publisher>PANGAEA</publisher><publicationYear>2020</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Grain Size</subject><subject>Intertidal cohesive sediments</subject><subject>organic matter</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Event label</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Latitude of event</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Longitude of event</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Elevation of event</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Campaign</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Gravel</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Sand</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Silt</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Clay minerals</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Grain size, mean</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Median, grain size</subject><subject subjectScheme="Parameter">Sorting</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Multiple investigations</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">CamsizerXT (Retsch Technology), statistical analysis GRADISTAT package (Blott and Pye, 2001)</subject><subject subjectScheme="Method">Geometric method of moments</subject></subjects><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Dataset</resourceType><relatedIdentifiers><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106935</relatedIdentifier><relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="References">10.1594/PANGAEA.911771</relatedIdentifier></relatedIdentifiers><sizes><size>72 data points</size></sizes><formats><format>text/tab-separated-values</format></formats><rightsList><rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" schemeURI="https://spdx.org/licenses/" rightsIdentifierScheme="SPDX" rightsIdentifier="CC-BY-4.0">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">Grain size distribution and organic matter content (loss on ignition) of surface scrape sediments were analyzed in summer 2016, autumn 2017, and summer 2018 at Nazareth tidal flat and marsh located west of Rimouski on the southern shore of Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (Canada). Surface sediment samples for analysis of grain size and organic matter content were collected at each site within 1 m radius of CSM measurements using a spatula to scrape the top 2-3 cm of sediments. The combustible organic matter content (loss on ignition, LOI) of the surface sediments was determined after: (1) drying at 60°C for 24 h until no weight change occurred; (2) placing in oven at 450°C for 16 h. For grain size analysis, the coarse and the fine grain size distributions were processed with Gradistat (Blott and Pye, 2001) to compute median grain size (d50), mean grain size, and sorting using the geometric moment method. The sorting is calculated similarly to a standard deviation. Cross-shore transect B was sampled in November 2017 for which, the data is presented here. The data for summer 2016, summer 2017, and summer 2018 was published in the context of annual variations in sediment biostabilization (Waqas et al., 2019, doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.911771)</description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationBox><westBoundLongitude>-68.56915008</westBoundLongitude><eastBoundLongitude>-68.56447022</eastBoundLongitude><southBoundLatitude>48.44233654</southBoundLatitude><northBoundLatitude>48.45070791</northBoundLatitude></geoLocationBox></geoLocation><geoLocation><geoLocationPlace>St. Lawrence Estuary, lower</geoLocationPlace></geoLocation></geoLocations></resource>