Tara Mediterranean expedition
Published January 14, 2022 | Version v1
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Chemical composition of microplastics floating on the surface of the Mediterranean Sea

Creators

  • 1. Universit´e Bretagne Sud, UMR CNRS 6027, IRDL, F-56100 Lorient, France
  • 2. University of Antwerp, Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research (SPHERE), 2020 Antwerp, Belgium
  • 3. Sorbonne Universit´es, UMR CNRS 7093, LOV, F-06230 Villefranche sur mer, France
  • 4. IFREMER, LER/PAC, F-20600 Bastia, France

Description

This dataset describes the types and proportions of the different microplastic types in samples collected from the surface waters during the Tara Mediterranean expedition in 2014.

The main polymers identified by Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectroscopy were poly(ethylene) (67.3 ± 2.4%), poly(propylene) (20.8 ± 2.1%) and poly(styrene) (3.0 ± 0.9%). N

Notes

The dataset is related to the publication entitled : Chemical composition of microplastics floating on the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin 174, in January 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.113284

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