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Relations between river sediments and dissolved matter
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A typical but actually unsolved problem is relating dissolved ions in water and the chemical composition of the corresponding sediments.
Our first assumption is that botH ion concentrations and the sediments are compositional in nature. Data from the 2022 and 2023 campaigns in the Trimpancho river (Mining System) (Huelva, Spain) are used to
illustrate the possibilities and the challenges of such an analysis. The data consists of 23 sampling points recording both 14 dissolved ions (mg/L) and 10 elements (mg/kg) from the sediment. A first analysis of
association using the proportionality index of parts (PIP) reveals that binary relations are weak, while the Aitchison-distance correlation indicates that there is some moderate correlation between dissolved
ions and sediments. The relation was also examined using compositional canonical correlation. A surprising result was that up to three canonical functions exhibited very high correlations. A deeper evaluation suggested that these high correlations are due to overparametrization given the small sample size. Finally, after simplification of the canonical correlation model, some balances within dissolved ions and within sediments evidenced moderate correlations in accordance with the previous results.
Results show that the main relations involve several elements and single element relations are irrelevant. For instance, the ion balance of Ca, Cu, Fe, Zn over Mg, Mn, Ni has a 0.7 Pearson correlation with the
sediment balance Al, Mn over Cr.
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River sediments
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EGOZCUE, J.J. [et al.] (2024) - Relations between river sediments and dissolved matter. In 12th International Geostatistics Congress, Ponta Delgada. p. 138.