Source apportionment of polychlorinated biphenyls using compound specific isotope analysis

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 239-251

  Yanik, Peter J ^a   O'Donnell, Thomas H ^a,c   Macko, Stephen A ^a   Qian, Yaorong ^b   Kennicutt II, Mahlon C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRASS CRAP SAMPLES;

CARBON; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; FRACTIONATION; PCB;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037286184     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00163-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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