Mud and organic content are strongly correlated with microplastic contamination in a meandering riverbed - Data sets

This is the dataset relating to publication "Microplastics distribution in a meandering riverbed reveasl mud content as a universal normalizer for microplastic contamination in aquatic environments" by Van Daele, M., Van Bastelaere, B., de Clercq, J., Meyer, I., Vercauteren, M. and Asselman, J. It contains the microplastic and sedimentological data that support the findings of that publication, with a seperate file for data obtained from riberbed sediments and the water column. It further contains a file with all source data for the graphs in the figures of the main manuscript and the Supplementary Information.