Soil Heavy Metal Concentrations Around a Landfill

Heavy metal concentrations in soil samples collected around a landfill. The dataset is a 9.5 KB Excel file authored by Sanjida Sultana Santa and published under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Assess soil contamination levels based on heavy metal concentrations mentioned in the description
• Model pollution dispersion from landfill sites based on spatial sampling
• Compare heavy metal levels against regulatory thresholds based on the measured concentrations

Strengths

• File size is precisely 9.5 KB.
• License is explicitly CC-BY-4.0, allowing for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 17:35:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Soil samples collected around a landfill.