Distribution of hydrocarbons in recent marine sediments off the coast of Baja California

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-53

  Macías Zamora, José V ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributions; N hydrocarbons; Normalization; Oil pollution; Polyaromatic hydrocarbons; Sediments

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT; CONTAMINATION; DISTRIBUTION; HYDROCARBONS; MARINE POLLUTION; MARINE SEDIMENT; OIL POLLUTION; PAH; POLLUTION PATTERN; SEDIMENT CONTAMINATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; UNRESOLVED COMPLEX MIXTURE;

MEXICO, BAJA CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC;

EID: 0029668758     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0269-7491(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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