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. 2019 Nov 23:28:104877.
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104877. eCollection 2020 Feb.

Dataset for spatial distribution and pollution indices of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Emerald Lake, Tamil Nadu, India

Perumal Karthikeyan  1   2 , Govindaswamy Vennila  1 , Ganesan Nanthakumar  3 , Muthukrishnan Aswini  4
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Dataset for spatial distribution and pollution indices of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Emerald Lake, Tamil Nadu, India

Perumal Karthikeyan et al. Data Brief. .

Abstract

The dataset for this manuscript with the spatial distribution of heavy metals such as Mn, Zn, Ni, Co, Pb, Cr, Cu and Fe, pollution indices of the surface sediments in the Emerald Lake, India, the significant source of pollution, are determined. The methods for calculation of pollution indices such as Enrichment Factor (EF), Contamination Degree (CD), modified Contamination degree (mCd) and Contamination factor (CF) are considered to know the level of heavy metal pollution in the study area. In this data, the results of pollution indices suggest that almost all the sites are polluted by heavy metals. The data could be very useful to metal pollutants and their sources in the surface sediments.

Keywords: Contamination degree; Contamination factor; Emerald lake; Enrichment factor; Heavy metals; Surface sediments; modified contamination degree.

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The base map of the emerald lake.
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a-f spatial distribution map of Fe, Mn, Cr, Cu, Pb, Zn. g–h spatial distribution map of Co and Ni.
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