Research Article
Pollution Characteristics and Possible Sources of Seldom Monitored Trace Elements in Surface Sediments Collected from Three Gorges Reservoir, China
Table 6
Component pattern matrix for varimax rotated PCA analysis for SMTEs.
| Elements | Component | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 |
| Li | 0.149 | 0.863 | −0.075 | Be | 0.876 | 0.123 | −0.333 | B | −0.062 | 0.843 | −0.004 | V | 0.913 | 0.171 | 0.203 | Co | 0.909 | 0.030 | 0.201 | Ga | 0.669 | −0.050 | 0.222 | Sn | 0.903 | 0.217 | −0.094 | Sb | 0.128 | −0.037 | 0.956 | Tl | 0.692 | 0.533 | 0.147 | Bi | 0.925 | 0.044 | 0.006 | Fe | 0.590 | −0.037 | 0.079 | Explained variance in % | 49.23 | 16.71 | 10.89 |
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