Sediment traps were deployed in tributaries to the San Juan River during 2021 and 2022. These traps collected sediment during storm events that typically occur as monsoonal convective storms from June to September. Because of the rural nature of the watershed, sediment traps were collected every 3 weeks so the sediment collected is a composite of that time period. The date listed is the date the trap was collected. This dataset includes the chemical concentrations of the sediment samples. Major ions are reported in weight percentage, while all other elements are reported in parts per million. Sediment samples in this dataset are digested using a mixture of hydrochloric, nitric, perchloric, and hydrofluoric acids at low temperature. The resulting solution is analyzed by ICP-OES and ICP-MS.
The 49 element dataset includes aluminum, calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, sulfur, silicon, titanium, silver, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, cerium, cobalt, chromium, cesium, copper, gallium, hafnium, indium, lanthanum, lithium, lutetium, manganese, molybdenum, niobium, nickel, phosphorous, lead, rubidium, antimony, scandium, selenium, tin, strontium, tantalum, terbium, tellurium, thorium, thallium, thulium, uranium, vanadium, tungsten, yttrium, ytterbium, zinc, and zircon.