R Dataset / Package Stat2Data / RiverElements
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the RiverElements data set which pertains to RiverElements. The RiverElements data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the RiverElements data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("RiverElements"). This will load the data into a variable called RiverElements. If R says the RiverElements data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the RiverElements R data set. The size of this file is about 1,681 bytes.
RiverElements
Description
Concentrations of elements in river water samples from upstate NY
Format
A dataset with 12 observations on the following 27 variables.
River | One of four rivers: Grasse , Oswegatchie , Raquette , or St. Regis |
Site | Location: 1=UpStream, 2=MidStream, 3=Downstream |
Al | Aluminum |
Ba | Barium |
Br | Bromine |
Ca | Calcium |
Ce | Cerium |
Cu | Copper |
Dy | Dysprosium |
Er | Erbim |
Fe | Iron |
Gd | Gadolinium |
Ho | Holmum |
K | Potassium |
La | Lathanum |
Li | Lithium |
Mg | Magnesium |
Mn | Manganese |
Nd | Neodymium |
Pr | Proseyodymium |
Rb | Rubidium |
Si | Silicon |
Sr | Strontium |
Y | Yttrium |
Yb | Ytterbium |
Zn | Zinc |
Zr | Zirconium |
Details
Some geologists were interested in the water chemistry of rivers in upstate New York. They took water samples at three different locations in four rivers (Grasse, Oswegatchie, Raquette, and St. Regis). The sampling sites were chosen to investigate how the composition of the water changes as it flows from the source to the mouth of each river. The sampling sites were labeled as upstream, midstream, and downstream. This dataset contains the concentations (parts per million) of a variety of elements in thoise water samples. The dataset RiverIron contains the information for iorn (FE) alone, along with the log of the concentration.
Source
Thanks to Dr. Jeff Chiarenzelli of the St. Lawrence University Geology Department for the data.
References
Chiarenzelli, Lock, Cady, Bregani and Whitney, "Variation in river multi-element chemistry related to bedrock buffering: an example from the Adirondack region of northern New York, USA", Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 67, Number 1 (2012), 189-204
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.