Citation:

PANGAEA.972635 (DOI registration in progress)

Name: Microplastics accumulation in a glacimarine sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland
Published: 2024
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Anthropocene; Arctic; Greenland; marine sediment; Microplastics

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Abstract:

The dataset provides information on microplastics particles identified in a sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland, collected in August 2015 and dated back to 1930. This sediment core was used for the reconstruction of microplastic accumulation in the Anthropocene. The sediment layers were dated radiometically (Lead-210 and Americium-241), extracted and identified via µ-FTIR.The table contains particle count, mass, polymer type, number of particles per polymer type, sediment layer (depth), which corresponds to a specific year, and microplastics accumulation in number of particles/Kg d.w. This datasets is complementary to https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972712, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972713, and the limits of detection are in https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972709.

Keyword(s):

Anthropocene; Arctic; Greenland; marine sediment; Microplastics

Related to:

Parga Martínez, Karla B; Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest; da Silva, Vitor; Strand, Jakob; Posth, Nicole (in press): Microplastics deposition in Arctic sediments of Greenland increases significantly after 1950. Communications Earth & Environment

Parga Martínez, Karla B; Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest; Posth, Nicole; da Silva, Vitor; Strand, Jakob (2024): Limit of detection (LoD) of microplastic accumulation in a glacimarine sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972709

Parga Martínez, Karla B; Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest; Posth, Nicole; da Silva, Vitor; Strand, Jakob (2024): Microplastics particle morphology in a glacimarine sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972713

Parga Martínez, Karla B; Andersen, Thorbjørn Joest; Posth, Nicole; da Silva, Vitor; Strand, Jakob (2024): Microplastics size class and fractions in a glacimarine sediment core from Disko Bay, Greenland [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.972712

Funding:

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), grant/award no. 801199: RECORD: An anthropogenic archive of plastic pollution in Greenland

Coverage:

Latitude: 69.030670 * Longitude: -53.030390

Date/Time Start: 2015-08-03T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2015-08-03T00:00:00

Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.00 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.28 m

Event(s):

Disko_Bay_Core * Latitude: 69.030670 * Longitude: -53.030390 * Date/Time: 2015-08-03T00:00:00 * Elevation: -850.0 m * Location: Disko Bay, Greenland * Method/Device: Rumohr corer (RUMC)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Event label	Event		Parga Martínez, Karla B
2	Age	Age	a AD/CE	Parga Martínez, Karla B
3	AGE	Age	ka BP	Parga Martínez, Karla B		Geocode
4	DEPTH, sediment/rock	Depth sed	m	Parga Martínez, Karla B		Geocode
5	Polymer	Polymer		Parga Martínez, Karla B
6	Microplastic particles	Microplastic part	#	Parga Martínez, Karla B	Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in combination with automated polymer identification [SIMPLE software] (FTIR SIMPLE software)
7	Microplastic abundance	Microplastic	#/kg	Parga Martínez, Karla B
8	Microplastic	Microplastic	mg/kg	Parga Martínez, Karla B
9	Microplastic	Microplastic	mg	Parga Martínez, Karla B
10	Mass	Mass	µg	Parga Martínez, Karla B

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

574 data points

Data

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1 Event	2 Age [a AD/CE]	3 Age [ka BP]	4 Depth sed [m]	5 Polymer	6 Microplastic part [#]	7 Microplastic [#/kg]	8 Microplastic [mg/kg]	9 Microplastic [mg]	10 Mass [µg]
Disko_Bay_Core	1930	0.020	0.28	PE	10	558.66	0.0075	0.00013	0.1339
Disko_Bay_Core	1930	0.020	0.28	PP	4	223.46	0.0032	0.00006	0.0571
Disko_Bay_Core	1930	0.020	0.28	Polyester	6	335.20	0.0292	0.00052	0.5227
Disko_Bay_Core	1930	0.020	0.28	PVC	5	279.33	0.0352	0.00063	0.6296
Disko_Bay_Core	1930	0.020	0.28	PS	8	446.93	0.0173	0.00031	0.3100
Disko_Bay_Core	1941	0.009	0.26	PE	12	515.02	0.0073	0.00017	0.1710
Disko_Bay_Core	1941	0.009	0.26	Polyester	6	257.51	0.0228	0.00053	0.5302
Disko_Bay_Core	1941	0.009	0.26	PP	4	171.67	0.0006	0.00002	0.0151
Disko_Bay_Core	1941	0.009	0.26	PVC	1	42.92	0.0008	0.00002	0.0182
Disko_Bay_Core	1951	-0.001	0.24	Polyester	11	556.68	0.0333	0.00066	0.6590
Disko_Bay_Core	1951	-0.001	0.24	PE	5	253.04	0.0090	0.00018	0.1780
Disko_Bay_Core	1951	-0.001	0.24	PP	3	151.82	0.0323	0.00064	0.6374
Disko_Bay_Core	1951	-0.001	0.24	PC	6	303.64	0.0165	0.00033	0.3258
Disko_Bay_Core	1960	-0.010	0.22	PE	100	4139.07	0.3353	0.00810	8.1005
Disko_Bay_Core	1960	-0.010	0.22	PP	4	165.56	0.0013	0.00003	0.0326
Disko_Bay_Core	1960	-0.010	0.22	Polyester	3	124.17	0.0345	0.00083	0.8341
Disko_Bay_Core	1960	-0.010	0.22	PVC	2	82.78	0.0008	0.00002	0.0183
Disko_Bay_Core	1967	-0.017	0.20	PP	167	10858.26	0.2714	0.00417	4.1737
Disko_Bay_Core	1967	-0.017	0.20	PE	71	4616.38	0.0980	0.00151	1.5080
Disko_Bay_Core	1967	-0.017	0.20	Polyester	7	455.14	0.0557	0.00086	0.8561
Disko_Bay_Core	1967	-0.017	0.20	PC	2	130.04	0.0129	0.00020	0.1984
Disko_Bay_Core	1967	-0.017	0.20	PVC	2	130.04	0.0071	0.00011	0.1089
Disko_Bay_Core	1967	-0.017	0.20	PS	3	195.06	0.0012	0.00002	0.0178
Disko_Bay_Core	1967	-0.017	0.20	PU	4	260.08	0.0725	0.00112	1.1157
Disko_Bay_Core	1974	-0.024	0.18	PE	61	3963.61	0.0932	0.00143	1.4341
Disko_Bay_Core	1974	-0.024	0.18	PP	9	584.80	0.0335	0.00051	0.5148
Disko_Bay_Core	1974	-0.024	0.18	Polyester	7	454.84	0.0217	0.00033	0.3345
Disko_Bay_Core	1974	-0.024	0.18	PS	7	454.84	0.0312	0.00048	0.4805
Disko_Bay_Core	1974	-0.024	0.18	PVC	2	129.95	0.0037	0.00006	0.0573
Disko_Bay_Core	1974	-0.024	0.18	PMMA	1	64.98	0.0069	0.00011	0.1057
Disko_Bay_Core	1974	-0.024	0.18	PC	1	64.98	0.0018	0.00003	0.0280
Disko_Bay_Core	1980	-0.030	0.16	PE	28	1811.13	0.1125	0.00174	1.7397
Disko_Bay_Core	1980	-0.030	0.16	PP	5	323.42	0.0547	0.00085	0.8451
Disko_Bay_Core	1980	-0.030	0.16	Polyester	1	64.68	0.0036	0.00006	0.0559
Disko_Bay_Core	1980	-0.030	0.16	PU	3	194.05	0.0589	0.00091	0.9099
Disko_Bay_Core	1986	-0.036	0.14	PE	19	1225.81	0.0872	0.00135	1.3509
Disko_Bay_Core	1986	-0.036	0.14	PP	14	903.23	0.0388	0.00060	0.6021
Disko_Bay_Core	1986	-0.036	0.14	Polyester	12	774.19	0.1491	0.00231	2.3111
Disko_Bay_Core	1986	-0.036	0.14	PS	4	258.06	0.0106	0.00016	0.1645
Disko_Bay_Core	1991	-0.041	0.12	PE	36	2294.46	0.0499	0.00078	0.7836
Disko_Bay_Core	1991	-0.041	0.12	PP	13	828.55	0.0079	0.00012	0.1234
Disko_Bay_Core	1991	-0.041	0.12	Polyester	4	254.94	0.0097	0.00015	0.1526
Disko_Bay_Core	1991	-0.041	0.12	PC	1	63.73	0.0004	0.00001	0.0070
Disko_Bay_Core	1996	-0.046	0.10	PE	8	534.05	0.1081	0.00162	1.6199
Disko_Bay_Core	1996	-0.046	0.10	Polyester	7	467.29	0.0782	0.00117	1.1721
Disko_Bay_Core	1996	-0.046	0.10	PP	7	467.29	0.0354	0.00053	0.5299
Disko_Bay_Core	1996	-0.046	0.10	PS	4	267.02	0.0026	0.00004	0.0388
Disko_Bay_Core	1996	-0.046	0.10	PC	1	66.76	0.0025	0.00004	0.0367
Disko_Bay_Core	1996	-0.046	0.10	PVC	1	66.76	0.0042	0.00006	0.0635
Disko_Bay_Core	2000	-0.050	0.08	PP	26	1575.76	0.0363	0.00060	0.5991
Disko_Bay_Core	2000	-0.050	0.08	PE	85	5151.52	0.1621	0.00267	2.6746
Disko_Bay_Core	2000	-0.050	0.08	Polyester	9	545.45	0.0510	0.00084	0.8407
Disko_Bay_Core	2000	-0.050	0.08	PC	2	121.21	0.1109	0.00183	1.8300
Disko_Bay_Core	2000	-0.050	0.08	PVC	2	121.21	0.0103	0.00017	0.1706
Disko_Bay_Core	2000	-0.050	0.08	PS	1	60.61	0.0007	0.00001	0.0108
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	PE	34	1579.93	0.2139	0.00460	4.6034
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	PP	17	789.96	0.3043	0.00655	6.5495
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	Polyester	7	325.28	0.0258	0.00056	0.5558
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	PS	9	418.22	0.0932	0.00201	2.0052
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	PVC	7	325.28	0.0362	0.00078	0.7791
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	PC	1	46.47	0.0019	0.00004	0.0416
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	PU	3	139.41	0.0099	0.00021	0.2123
Disko_Bay_Core	2005	-0.055	0.06	PMMA	1	46.47	0.0001	0.00000	0.0028
Disko_Bay_Core	2009	-0.059	0.04	PP	19	1024.26	0.0288	0.00053	0.5346
Disko_Bay_Core	2009	-0.059	0.04	PE	15	808.63	0.0304	0.00056	0.5632
Disko_Bay_Core	2009	-0.059	0.04	Polyester	3	161.73	0.0584	0.00108	1.0834
Disko_Bay_Core	2009	-0.059	0.04	PC	2	107.82	0.0103	0.00019	0.1916
Disko_Bay_Core	2009	-0.059	0.04	PU	1	53.91	0.0028	0.00005	0.0511
Disko_Bay_Core	2012	-0.062	0.02	PE	26	1735.65	0.1060	0.00159	1.5882
Disko_Bay_Core	2012	-0.062	0.02	PP	15	1001.34	0.0408	0.00061	0.6114
Disko_Bay_Core	2012	-0.062	0.02	Polyester	9	600.80	0.0659	0.00099	0.9874
Disko_Bay_Core	2012	-0.062	0.02	PC	14	934.58	0.0870	0.00130	1.3025
Disko_Bay_Core	2012	-0.062	0.02	PU	1	66.76	0.0004	0.00001	0.0056
Disko_Bay_Core	2012	-0.062	0.02	PVC	1	66.76	0.0030	0.00005	0.0454
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	PP	16	1366.35	0.0851	0.00100	0.9965
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	PE	12	1024.77	0.1849	0.00216	2.1648
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	Polyester	8	683.18	0.0162	0.00019	0.1902
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	PC	10	853.97	0.0459	0.00054	0.5372
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	PVC	1	85.40	0.0108	0.00013	0.1263
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	PS	1	85.40	0.0182	0.00021	0.2134
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	PMMA	3	256.19	0.0020	0.00002	0.0230
Disko_Bay_Core	2015	-0.065	0.00	PU	1	85.40	0.0016	0.00002	0.0191