[Retracted] Spatiotemporal Variation of Surface Sediment Quality in the Xiamen Sea Area, China

Table 3

Correlation analysis between TOC, sulfide, oils, and heavy metals.

		TOC	Sulfide	Cu	Pb	Zn	Cd	Cr
WS (~50)	Sulfide	0.251
	Cu	0.197	0.048
	Pb	0.068	0.557	0.047
	Zn	0.447	-0.397	0.272	-0.661
	Cd	-0.047	-0.439	0.148	-0.531	0.491
	Oils	-0.249	-0.383	0.398	-0.326	0.525	0.537
JE (~91)	Sulfide	0.537
	Cu	0.663	0.409
	Pb	0.542	0.609	0.549
	Zn	0.249	0.068	0.283	0.307
	Cd	0.207	0.312	0.256	0.680	.182
	Cr	0.555	0.121	0.523	0.107	0.386	0.003
	Oils	0.097	0.176	0.372	0.007	0.043	0.036	0.647
ES (~125)	Sulfide	0.335
	Cu	0.462	0.148
	Zn	0.422	0.200	0.152
	Oils	0.131	-0.106	0.219		0.152
TB (~88)	Sulfide	0.451
	Cu	0.645	0.472
	Pb	0.307	0.163	0.071
	Zn	0.177	0.108	0.363	-0.088
	Oils	0.040	0.104	0.108	0.271	-0.115

Significant correlated at 0.01 level (), significant correlated at 0.05 level ().