“…Without presenting the full correlation and regression A geochemical and statistical approach for assessing heavy metal... results, it should be noted that when the six metals were correlated with the different grain size fractions it was observed that the grain size of the sediments did not have a noticeable pronounced effect on the spatial distribution of heavy metals. One reason for this occurrence could be the fact that the analyzed grain sizes were not in the very fine material range (< 0.063 mm) which numerous investigators (for example, Förstner, et al,1982;Cauwet, 1987;Arujo, et al, 1988;Chakrapani and Subramanian, 1993;Maurer, et al, 1994;De Gregori, et al, 1996;Ujevi, et al, 2000;Zhang, et al, 2001;Avila-Perez, et al, 2002;Che, et al, 2003) found to be associated with the highest concentrations of heavy metals. In addition to correlation and regression analysis, discriminant analysis was used to investigate whether the spatial variations of the various metals along the coast had statistically significant concentrations in specific (i.e., localized) or well-defined geographic areas.…”