Dataset description: Inorganic compositional data for fine-grained Puget Sound sediment along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line, September 2015

Nearshore surface sediment was collected with a petit ponar grab sampler between April 22 and September 17, 2015, at five sites in Puget Sound, Washington. Four sites were adjacent to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line in urban and non-urban areas, and one site was in an urban area that was not adjacent to the rail line. Total and near-total major, minor, trace, and rare earth element contents of the <0.063 mm sediment fraction were determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy. These data accompany Takesue, R.K., and Campbell, P.L., 2019, Contaminant baselines and sediment provenance along the Puget Sound Energy Transport Corridor, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1196, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181196.

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Keywords	toxic trace element contamination, rare earth elements, grab sampling, mass spectroscopy
Data types	Geology
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Contacts

Contact	Renee K Takesue PCMSC_data@usgs.gov

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Location of materials and files

Public files	https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/5bfdf3b5e4b0815414ca5eb9 https://doi.org/10.5066/P9JCJ4EQ
Metadata	https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/pcmsc/DataReleases/ScienceBase/DR_P9JCJ4EQ/PugetSoundBaselineSedimentComposition2015_meta.xml Outline - Questions and answers - Text - XML

Activities and equipment

Activity	Equipment
2015-631-FA	Hand-grab sample no sampling device used
2015-660-FA	Ponar grab sampler