Pollution Characteristics and Possible Sources of Seldom Monitored Trace Elements in Surface Sediments Collected from Three Gorges Reservoir, China

Table 5

Correlation coefficients of SMTEs in TGR sediments.

	Li	Be	B	V	Co	Ga	Sn	Sb	Tl	Bi	Fe
Li	1.000	0.278*	0.502**	0.195	0.106	0.056	0.325**	−0.046	0.555**	0.173	0.100
Be		1.000	0.016	0.736**	0.693**	0.493**	0.859**	−0.152	0.629**	0.792**	0.423**
B			1.000	0.151	0.030	−0.120	0.115	−0.078	0.287*	0.024	0.006
V				1.000	0.921**	0.578**	0.828**	0.282*	0.737**	0.837**	0.527**
Co					1.000	0.537**	0.806**	0.291*	0.613**	0.877**	0.509**
Ga						1.000	0.475**	0.198	0.608**	0.525**	0.289*
Sn							1.000	0.071	0.689**	0.865**	0.444**
Sb								1.000	0.168	0.151	0.133
Tl									1.000	0.575**	0.292*
Bi										1.000	0.500**
Fe											1.000

∗Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
**Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).