Tech Memo 16: Table 6

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Table 6. Product-moment correlations in sediment for Pacific coast urban sites. Correlations of log₁₀ element concentrations for all West Coast and Alaskan urban sites. Number of measurements between 184 and 250 for stations over all years for each element. Bold entries are significant at alpha = 0.00033.

	Al	As	Cd	Cr	Cu	Fe	Hg	Mn	Ni	Pb	Sb	Se	Si	Sn	Zn	Fine	TOC
Ag	0.27	0.25	0.25	0.08	0.56	0.31	0.40	0.16	0.04	0.57	0.02	0.03	-0.26	0.39	0.52	0.31	0.19	Ag
Al		0.21	0.22	-0.01	0.38	0.44	0.12	0.41	0.07	0.43	0.38	0.08	-0.22	0.36	0.38	0.23	0.01	Al
As			0.08	0.37	0.35	0.17	0.27	-0.06	0.32	0.29	0.04	-0.01	0.01	0.22	0.23	0.29	-0.01	As
Cd				-0.22	0.39	0.18	0.31	0.12	-0.03	0.33	0.26	0.30	-0.29	0.25	0.33	0.19	0.31	Cd
Cr					0.12	0.30	0.07	0.22	0.67	-0.04	0.03	0.07	0.04	0.06	0.13	0.17	-0.08	Cr
Cu						0.68	0.68	0.38	0.31	0.71	0.21	0.29	-0.53	0.55	0.87	0.62	0.45	Cu
Fe							0.35	0.79	0.53	0.42	0.35	0.29	-0.51	0.31	0.84	0.61	0.33	Fe
Hg								-0.01	0.26	0.58	0.19	0.15	-0.35	0.44	0.62	0.36	0.34	Hg
Mn									0.27	0.16	0.34	0.27	-0.36	0.19	0.58	0.28	0.10	Mn
Ni										0.12	0.18	0.23	-0.15	0.06	0.35	0.38	0.14	Ni
Pb											0.12	0.26	-0.38	0.56	0.67	0.56	0.37	Pb
Sb												0.21	-0.35	0.06	0.31	0.22	0.15	Sb
Se													-0.38	0.18	0.33	0.46	0.55	Se
Si														-0.19	-0.56	-0.58	-0.52	Si
Sn															0.52	0.26	0.22	Sn
Zn																0.65	0.44	Zn
Fine																	0.53	Fine

Sites listed in Table 1 and element abbreviations are defined in Table 3. TOC is total organic carbon and Fine is fine sediment particles (< 63 µm).