Soil and Marine Sediment Properties from Galion Bay, Martinique for Erosion Source Tracing

Measured properties from soil samples and a marine sediment core collected in Galion Bay, Martinique, France. The dataset was compiled to identify and quantify sediment sources and associated chlordecone transfers since the 1960s. It includes metadata registered with International Geological Sample Numbers (IGSN) and was authored by Rémi Bizeul of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Use Cases

• Selecting an optimal suite of tracers for sediment fingerprinting based on measured geochemical properties.
• Identifying primary sources of sediment deposited in Galion Bay based on catchment sample comparisons.
• Quantifying historical chlordecone transfers associated with sediment erosion since the 1960s based on core sample analysis.
• Validating sediment transport models for insular tropical catchments using the integrated source and target metadata.

Strengths

• Includes metadata registered with International Geological Sample Numbers (IGSN), which suggests standardized sample identification.
• Contains data from both potential sources across a catchment and a dated sediment core, enabling source-to-sink analysis.
• Compiled for a specific research purpose of tracing erosion sources and pollutant transfers, indicating focused data collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Collection Method

Field collection of soil samples and a marine sediment core, with subsequent laboratory measurement of properties.

Time Range

Sediment core covers a period since the 1960s.

Geography

Galion Bay catchment, Martinique, France.