Downcore increase in accumulated amount of solids in the upper part of the X-rayed sediment cores from the Kattegatt and the southwestern Baltic Sea, sampled during the Baseline study of Contaminants in the Baltic Sea in 1993.

Core K1 = Kattegatt 1, station no. 155, depth 28 m. K2 = Kattegatt 2, station no. 156, depth 75 m. KB = Kiel Bight, station no. 157, depth 23 m. MB = Mecklenburg Bight, station no. 159, depth 27 m. LB = LÜbeck Bay, station no. 160, depth 22 m. AB = Arkona Basin, station no. 166, depth 45 m.

Curves showing the increase of solids with increasing sediment depth are used for comparing the hardness (or softness) of the X-rayed sediment cores, sampled during this Baseline study. The downcore variations in content of solids, bulk density. porosity, and void ratio as well as the downcore increase in cumulated amount of solids and in effective overburden pressure are tabulated for every second mm. Since most of the sub-sampling was based on 1 cm thick slices the tabulated X-ray densitometrically calculated values are also given as mean values for a depth interval of 1 cm in the X-rayed sediment cores.

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