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Contaminated Sediments Database for Long Island Sound and the New York Bight, Open-File Report 03-241


Database Statistics

Total Data
No of Samples
Percent
Total no of samples
4506
a
with latitudes and longitudes
4302
95.5%
with date
4162
92.4%
Minimum Date
1956
a
Maximum Date
1997
a

Depth codes
No of Samples
Percent
surface
2850
63.2%
depth
801
17.8%
unknown
855
19.0%

Core or Grab
No of Samples
Percent
Core
951
21.1%
Grab
2807
62.3%
Grab (?)
35
0.8%
Unknown
713
15.8%
Available Data
No of samples
Percent
Inorganics
4244
94.2%
with methods
3238
76.3%
Organics
1915
42.5%
with methods
760
39.7%
Texture
1946
43.2%
Methods, fines
1924
98.9%
Methods, coarse
1924
98.9%
Inorganics and Organics or Texture

2146
47.6%
Bioassay

1345
29.8%
Other

368
8.2%

Area Code
No of Samples
Percent
LIS

2464
54.7%
NYB

1783
39.6%
Rivers

259
5.7%
With hard copy

3054
67.8%

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