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<Entry_Title>Table 3: Summary of sampling locations, date, trace element and rare earth element concentrations of suspended sediment samples collected from the headwaters and upstream section of the Ganga basin</Entry_Title>
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<Dataset_Creator>Boral, Soumita; Sen, Indra Sekhar; Tripathi, Aditya; Sharma, Bhupendra; Dhar, Sanjukta</Dataset_Creator>
<Dataset_Title>Table 3: Summary of sampling locations, date, trace element and rare earth element concentrations of suspended sediment samples collected from the headwaters and upstream section of the Ganga basin</Dataset_Title>
<Dataset_Release_Date>2020-08-21</Dataset_Release_Date>
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<Detailed_Variable>Lithium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Cobalt</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Copper</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Gallium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Arsenic</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
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<Detailed_Variable>Strontium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Cadmium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Niobium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Tantalum</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Lanthanum</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Samarium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Gadolinium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Terbium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Dysprosium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Holmium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Detailed_Variable>Erbium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Thulium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Parameters>
<Detailed_Variable>Lutetium</Detailed_Variable>
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<Keyword>dissolved data</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_1404</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_1983</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_2500</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_3053</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_338</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_406</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_463</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_470</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_653</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_670</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_785</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_795</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_876</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga_sediment_983</Keyword>
<Keyword>Ganga River</Keyword>
<Keyword>Geochemistry</Keyword>
<Keyword>Rare earth elements</Keyword>
<Keyword>Sediment sample</Keyword>
<Keyword>sediment samples</Keyword>
<Keyword>trace elements</Keyword>
<Temporal_Coverage>
<Start_Date>2014-05-19</Start_Date>
<Stop_Date>2015-08-17</Stop_Date>
</Temporal_Coverage>
<Data_Set_Progress>Complete</Data_Set_Progress>
<Spatial_Coverage>
<Southernmost_Latitude>30.1</Southernmost_Latitude>
<Northernmost_Latitude>31.0</Northernmost_Latitude>
<Westernmost_Longitude>78.3</Westernmost_Longitude>
<Easternmost_Longitude>79.6</Easternmost_Longitude>
</Spatial_Coverage>
<Access_Constraints>unrestricted</Access_Constraints>
<Use_Constraints>CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</Use_Constraints>
<Data_Set_Language>English</Data_Set_Language>
<Data_Center>
<Data_Center_Name>
<Short_Name>PANGAEA</Short_Name>
<Long_Name>Data Publisher for Earth &amp; Environmental Science</Long_Name>
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<Data_Center_URL>https://www.pangaea.de/</Data_Center_URL>
<Personnel>
<Role>Data Center Contact</Role>
<First_Name>Michael</First_Name>
<Last_Name>Diepenbroek</Last_Name>
<Email>info@pangaea.de</Email>
<Contact_Address>
<Address>Leobener Str.</Address>
<City>Bremen</City>
<Province_or_State>Bremen</Province_or_State>
<Postal_Code>28359</Postal_Code>
<Country>Germany</Country>
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<Distribution_Media>online</Distribution_Media>
<Distribution_Size>1107 data points</Distribution_Size>
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<Reference>Boral, Soumita; Sen, Indra Sekhar; Tripathi, Aditya; Sharma, Bhupendra; Dhar, Sanjukta (2020): Tracking dissolved trace and heavy metals in the Ganga River from source to sink: A baseline to judge future changes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(10), e2020GC009203, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009203</Reference>
<Summary>For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.921891"! ** Abbreviations: Headwater (H/W), upstream (U/S)</Summary>
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<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevation</URL>
<Description>ELEVATION</Description>
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<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LATITUDE</Description>
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<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709</URL>
<Description>LONGITUDE</Description>
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<Related_URL>
<URL>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601</URL>
<Description>DATE/TIME</Description>
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<Related_URL>
<URL>https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009203</URL>
<Description>Tracking dissolved trace and heavy metals in the Ganga River from source to sink: A baseline to judge future changes</Description>
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<DIF_Creation_Date>2020-08-21</DIF_Creation_Date>
<Last_DIF_Revision_Date>2026-07-15</Last_DIF_Revision_Date>
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