Dataset for the assessment of metallic pollution in the Saint-Charles River sediments (Québec City, QC, Canada)

Léo Chassiot; Pierre Francus; Arnaud De Coninck; Patrick Lajeunesse; Danielle Cloutier; Thibault Labarre

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104256

Dataset for the assessment of metallic pollution in the Saint-Charles River sediments (Québec City, QC, Canada)

Data Brief. 2019 Jul 15:26:104256. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104256. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Léo Chassiot^{1

2

3

4}, Pierre Francus^{1

2}, Arnaud De Coninck¹, Patrick Lajeunesse^{3

4}, Danielle Cloutier³, Thibault Labarre³

Affiliations

¹ INRS-ETE, 490 rue de la Couronne, Québec, QC, G1R 9A9, Canada.
² GEOTOP, Geochemistry and Geodynamics Research Center, Montreal, Canada.
³ Département de Géographie, Université Laval, Pavillon Abitibi-Price, 2405 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
⁴ Centre d'Études Nordiques, Université Laval, Pavillon Abitibi-Price, 2405 Rue de la Terrasse, Québec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.

Abstract

This Data in Brief article presents sedimentological and geochemical parameters from a set of sedimentary samples collected in the Saint-Charles River, a tributary of the Saint-Lawrence River flowing in Québec City (QC, Canada). It details the experimental design, methods, materials and results of destructive analyses related to a multi-proxy study of polymetallic contamination in sediments collected within an urban reservoir (Spatial and temporal patterns of metallic pollution in Québec City, Canada: Sources and hazard assessment from reservoir sediment records, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.021, (Chassiot et al., 2019)). The present article summarizes the results of relevant parameters on a set of 68 samples: total organic carbon (TOC), sulfur content, grain-size, and concentrations of heavy and trace metals. It also presents the calculation of enrichment factors, geoaccumulation indexes, and metallic pollution index.

Keywords: Heavy and trace metals; Pollution; Reservoir sediments; Urban river.