Major and trace element analyses of eleven grain-size fractions of river sediments from northern Chilean Patagonia

Abstract: Major elements and zirconium concentrations of eleven grain-size fractions of sediments from six rivers in Chilean Patagonia. All subsamples were measured by ICP-AES after fusion technique. Data was used for investigating the relations between grain size and sediment geochemistry, further developing a method to predict sediment grain size from geochemistry. This work was funded by the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration (8379-07), FWO research credit (1.5.104.11.N), and UGent BOF HYDROPROX project (01N02216).