Dataset of analyzes performed to determine the level and timing of selected organic pollutants’ inputs in sediments of the Lake of Cavazzo (Italy)
Pizzini, Sarah; Giuliani, Silvia; Polonia, Alina; Piazza, Rossano; Bellucci, Luca Giorgio; Orlando, Beatrice; Gambaro, Andrea; Gasperini, Luca;
This data article presents the dataset collected for selected organic pollutants in the framework of a larger research project aimed at assessing the effects of different environ-mental stressors (natural and anthropogenic) in sediments of the Lake of Cavazzo, a basin of glacial origin located in a seis-mically active region of the Italian Eastern Alps. Information relative to sampling strategy and operations, location of sam-pling sites, sedimentary chronological benchmarks, and pro-files of RGB (Red-Green-Blue) color code determined from high resolution photos taken at cores CAV-04 and CAV-06 are reported, together with analytical data for 15 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, 21 polychlorinated biphenyls’ con-geners (including the non-Aroclor CB-11), 14 polybrominated diphenyl ethers’ congeners, and 22 organochlorine pesticides, whose concentrations were determined by Gas Chromatog-raphy coupled both to Low-Resolution and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry. Interpretation of this dataset is fully dis-cussed in the companion article by Pizzini et al. (2022) and relys on the multi-proxy analysis of sediment samples pre-sented in Polonia et al. (2021) that highlighted lake stratigra-phy and major changes occurring at a decadal scale since the 1950s.(c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )
2022 - Journal article
Data in brief 45 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108633
Keywords: Lake of Cavazzo, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), PolyChlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs), OrganoChlorine Pesticides (OCPs), sediments, Dataset