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River-groundwater Interaction and Recharge Effects on Microplastics Contamination of Groundwater in Confined Alluvial Aquifers: Original dataset
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This is a dataset entry supporting a study on microplastic contamination in confined alluvial groundwater aquifers, covering the role of river-groundwater interaction in transporting microplastics into subsurface water. Raw analysis data from environmental and control samples are provided. It is a supporting dataset rather than a full research paper.
The dataset includes all the microplastics analysed for the manuscript "River–Groundwater Interaction and Recharge Effects on Microplastics Contamination of Groundwater in Confined Alluvial Aquifers" by Edoardo Severini, Laura Ducci, Alessandra Sutti, Stuart Robottom, Sandro Sutti and Fulvio Celico (https://doi.org/10.3390/w14121913). The dataset "MP (ctrl and sample).txt" contains the raw data of environmental and ctrl samples. The values of the ctrl samples were used to analyse the statistical differences between ctrl and environmental samples and subsequently used to define the identification parameters (threshold) for the microplastics identification in surface water and groundwater, contained in the file "MP (after ctrl sample).txt".
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