Depositional history of organic contaminants on the Palos Verdes Shelf, California

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 317-338

  Eganhouse, R P ^a   Pontolillo, J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

DDT; Deposition; Palos Verdes Shelf; PCBs; Sedimentation rates; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION; SHELF SEDIMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033935406     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4203(00)00033-5     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Barber, J.H., Chin, J.L., Phillips, R.L., 1994. Stratigraphic core descriptions of sediment sampled from the Palos Verdes margin. Expert Report 2.G., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 174 pp.
2. Bascom, W., Mardesich, J., Stubbs, H., 1982. An improved corer for soft sediments. Biennial Report 1981-1982. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Long Beach, CA, pp. 267-271.
3. Carry, C.W., Redner, J.A., 1970. Pesticides and heavy metals, Progress Report December 1970. County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, 51 pp.
4. Costa, H.J., Bailey, A., 1994. Chemical analyses of sediment cores data report. Expert Report 2.H., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 138 pp.
5. Drake, D.E., 1994a. The natural recovery of contaminated effluent-affected sediment on the Palos Verdes Margin: Background information and results of the USGS natural recovery research. Expert Report 20.B., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 131 pp.
6. Drake, D.E., 1994b. Results of grain size and settling analyses of sediment on the Palos Verdes Margin. Expert Report 2.D., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 37 pp.
7. Drake, D.E., Sherwood, C.R., Wiberg, P.L., 1994. Predictive modeling of the natural recovery of the contaminated effluent-affected sediment, Palos Verdes Margin, Southern California. Expert Report 20, Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 93 pp.
8. Edwards, B.D., Chezar, H., 1994. Camera survey of the Palos Verdes shelf and slope. Expert Report 2.E., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 106 pp.
9. Eganhouse R.P., Kaplan I.R. Depositional history of Recent sediments from San Pedro Shelf, California: reconstruction using elemental abundance, isotopic composition and molecular markers. Mar. Chem. 24:1988;163-191.
10. Eganhouse R.P., Venkatesan M.I. Chemical oceanography and geochemistry. Dailey M.D., Reish D.J., Anderson J.W. Ecology of the Southern California Bight. A Synthesis and Interpretation. 1993;71-189 University of California Press, Los Angeles.
11. Eganhouse R.P., Blumfield D.L., Kaplan I.R. Long-chain alkylbenzenes as molecular tracers of domestic wastes in the marine environment. Env. Sci. Technol. 17:1983;523-529.
12. Eganhouse R.P., Pontolillo J., Leiker T.J. Diagenetic fate of organic contaminants on the Palos Verdes Shelf, California. Mar. Chem. 70:2000;289-315. this issue.
13. Environmental Protection Agency, 1992. Definition and procedure for the determination of the method detection limit-Revision 1.11, 40 CFR, Appendix B to Part 136, pp. 565-567.
14. Ferraro S.P., Swartz R.C., Cole F.A., Schults D.W. Temporal changes in the benthos along a pollution gradient: discriminating the effects of natural phenomena from sewage-industrial wastewater effects. Estuarine, Coastal Shelf Sci. 33:1991;383-407.
15. Hamer, M.R., 1994. Processing of navigation and bathymetric data collected on the Palos Verdes Margin. Southern California, Expert Report 2.I., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 21 pp.
16. Hampton M.A., Karl H.A., Murray C.J. Acoustic profiles and images of the Palos Verdes Margin: implications concerning deposition from the White's Point outfall. Cont. Shelf Res. 2000;. (in review).
17. Hansch C., Leo A. Pomona College Medicinal Chemistry Project-Log P and Parameter Database: A tool for the Quantitative Prediction of Bioactivity. 1982;Comtex Scientific, New York.
18. Hedges J.I., Stern J.H. Carbon and nitrogen determinations of carbonate-containing solids. Limnol. Oceanogr. 29:1984;657-663.
19. Hendricks, T., Eganhouse, R., 1992. Modification and verification of sediment deposition models. Final Report to Regional Water Quality Control Board, State of California, Sacramento, CA, 330 pp.
20. Hickey B.M. Circulation over the Santa Monica-San Pedro Basin and Shelf. Prog. Oceanogr. 30:1992;37-115.
21. Kayen, R.E., 1994. Mass physical and geotechnical properties of sediment on the Palos Verdes margin. Expert Report 2.B., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 286 pp.
22. Kayen, R.E., Hein, J.R, Wong, F.L., 1994. Contribution of the Portuguese Bend Landslide to the recent accretion of sediment on the Palos Verdes Shelf, southern California. Expert Report 20.I., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 44 pp.
23. Kettenring, K.N., 1981. The trace metal stratigraphy and recent sedimentary history of anthrogenous particulates on the San Pedro Shelf, California, PhD Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 156 pp.
24. Lee, H.J., 1994a. The distribution and character of contaminated effluent-affected sediment, Palos Verdes Margin, southern California. Expert Report 2, Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 261 pp.
25. Lee, H.J., 1994b. County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County (LACSD) multi-year measurements of chemical constituents and bulk density of sediment on the Palos Verdes margin. Expert Report 2.F., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 156 pp.
26. Lee H.J., Sherwood C.R., Drake D.E., Edwards B.D., Wong F., Hamer M. Spatial and temporal distribution of contaminated, effluent-affected sediment on the Palos Verdes Margin, southern California. Cont. Shelf Res. 2000;. (in review).
27. Environmental processes affecting DDT contaminated sediments off Palos Verdes, California. Kolpack R.L. A Sediment Dynamics Workshop Sponsored by County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, October 19-21, 1987, Pomona, CA. 1988;. 102 pp.
28. MacGregor J.S. DDT and its metabolites in the sediments off southern California. Fish. Bull. 74:1976;27-35.
29. Mackay, D., Shiu, W.Y., Ma, K.C., 1992. Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals. Vol. 1. Monoaromatic Hydrocarbons, Chlorobenzenes, and PCBs., Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL, 697 pp.
30. Murray, C.J., 1994. Geostatistical mapping of the distribution of effluent-affected sediment deposits and associated contaminant inventories, Palos Verdes Margin, southern California. Expert Report 2.M., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 90 pp.
31. Niedoroda A.W., Swift D.J.P., Reed C.W., Stull J.K. Contaminant dispersal on the Palos Verdes continental margin: III. Processes controlling transport, accumulation and re-emergence of DDT-contaminated sediment particles. Sci. Total Environ. 179:1996;109-133.
32. Noble, M., 1994. Circulation patterns over the Palos Verdes Shelf and upper slope. Expert Report 20.H., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994. 205 pp.
33. Ötvös L., Iglewski S., Hunneman D.H., Bartha B., Balthazár Z., Pályi G. Petrochemical analytical problems: II. Gas-liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric investigation of industrial dodecylbenzenes. J. Chromatogr. 78:1973;309-316.
34. 210Pb and sediment fluxes near the Whites Point Outfalls, Palos Verdes Shelf, California. Environ. Sci. Technol. 33:1999;3077-3085.
35. Redner, J.A., Payne, K., 1971. Chlorinated hydrocarbons. Progress Report-December 1971, County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, 78 pp.
36. Renner R. "Natural" remediation of DDT, PCBs debated. Environ. Sci. Technol. 32:1998;360A-363A.
37. Reynolds, S., 1987. Sediment dynamics on the Palos Verdes Shelf. Report to the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, November 1, 1987, 59 pp.
38. Reynolds, S., 1989. X-radiography of Palos Verdes sediment cores: draft report to the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, 11 pp.
39. Schafer H. Improving southern California's coastal waters. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed. 61:1989;1396-1401.
40. 14 linear alkylbenzenes. J. Chem. Eng. Data. 37:1992;394-399.
41. Sherwood C.R., Drake D.E., Wiberg P.L. Additional results from the one-dimensional model of bed-sediment contamination profiles. Supplement to Predictive Modeling of the Natural Recovery of the Contaminated Effluent-affected Sediment, Palos Verdes Margin, southern California. 1996;. November, 41 pp.
42. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, 1973. The ecology of the southern California Bight: implications for water quality management. Technical Report 104, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, El Segundo, CA, 531 pp.
43. Stull J.K., Haydock C.I. Wastewater discharges and environmental responses: the Palos Verdes case. Proceedings of the Symposium: Managing Inflows to California's bays and estuaries, Monterey, California, November 13-15. 1986;44-49.
44. Stull J.K., Tang C.-L. Marine ecology of the Palos Verdes Shelf, California, 1972-1997. Cont. Shelf Res. 2000;. (in review).
45. Stull J.K., Baird R.B., Heesen T.C. Marine sediment core profiles of trace constituents offshore of a deep wastewater outfall. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed. 58:1986;985-991.
46. Stull J.K., Haydock C.I., Montagne D.E. Effects of Listriolobus pelodes (Echiura) on coastal shelf benthic communities and sediments modified by a major California wastewater discharge. Estuarine, Coastal Shelf Sci. 22:1986;1-17.
47. Stull, J., Baird, R., Heesen, T., 1988. Relationship between declining discharges of municipal wastewater contaminants and marine sediment core profiles. In: Wolfe, D.A., O'Connor, T.P. (Eds.), Oceanic Processes in Marine Pollution. Vol. 5. Urban Wastes in Coastal Marine Environments, Robert E. Krieger Publishing, Malabar, FL, pp. 23-32.
48. Stull J.K., Swift D.J.P., Niedoroda A.W. Contaminant dispersal on the Palos Verdes continental margin: I. Sediments and biota near a major California wastewater discharge. Sci. Total Environ. 179:1996;73-90.
49. b, from composition of the benthic infaunal community. Sci. Total Environ. 179:1996;91-107.
50. Valette-Silver N.J. The use of sediment cores to reconstruct historical trends in contamination of estuarine and coastal sediments. Estuaries. 16:1993;577-588.
51. Wheatcroft, R.A., Martin, W.R., 1994. Solid-phase bioturbation processes on the Palos Verdes shelf. Expert Report 20.E., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 228 pp.
52. 234Th) sediment bioturbation intensity along an organic-carbon gradient. J. Mar. Res. 54:1996;763-792.
53. Wong, F.L., 1994. Heavy-mineral provinces of the Palos Verdes area, southern California. Expert Report 20.J., Southern California Damage Assessment Witness Reports, October 4, 1994, 53 pp.
54. Young D.R., McDermott D.J., Heesen T.C. DDT in sediments and organisms around southern California outfalls. J. Water Pollut. Control Fed. 48:1976;1919-1928.
55. Young D.R., Heesen T.C., McDermott D.J. An offshore biomonitoring system for chlorinated hydrocarbons. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 7:1976;156-159.
56. Young, D.R., Gossett, R.W., Heesen, T.C., 1988. Persistence of chlorinated hydrocarbon contamination in a California marine ecosystem. In: Wolfe, D.A., O'Connor, T.P. (Eds.), Oceanic Processes in Marine Pollution. Vol. 5. Urban Wastes in Coastal Marine Environments, Robert E. Krieger Publishing, Malabar, FL, pp. 23-32.
57. Young, D.R., Mearns, A.J., Gossett, R.W., 1991. Bioaccumulation of p,p′-DDE and PCB 1254 by a flatfish bioindicator from highly contaminated marine sediments of southern California. In: Baker, R.A. (Ed.), Organic Substances and Sediments in Water. Vol. 3. Biological, Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI, pp. 159-169.