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changeable since different methodologies that are not inter-comparable (Bat et al., 2015; Bat and Özkan, 2015).
Figure 5 Mean, median, 95% confidence levels, minimum, maximum values, and outliers of geoaccumulation index for 19 elements
in the sediments of Akliman of Sinop Peninsula in the Black Sea
Figure 6 Mean, median, 95% confidence levels, minimum, maximum values, and outliers of geoaccumulation index for 19 elements
in the sediments of Inner Harbor of Sinop Peninsula in the Black Sea
Figure 7 Mean, median, 95% confidence levels, minimum, maximum values, and outliers of geoaccumulation index for 19 elements
in the sediments of Karakum of Sinop Peninsula in the Black Sea
3 Conclusions
It can be inferred from the present study the stations close to industrial and urban areas have more trace elements.
The I
geo
values suggest that surface sediments in Sinop Peninsula of the Black Sea varied from unpolluted to
extremely contaminate. The present study recommended that risk of metal values can be evaluated by using
indices not only by measuring of metals alone. Although some metal levels were found high in some stations at
Sinop Peninsula, the most of them were not extremely contaminated in surface sediments and did not show an
