Fate and identification of spilled oils and petroleum products in the environment by GC-MS and GC-FID

Energy Sources

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 491-508

  Wang, Zhendi ^a   Fingas, Merv ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alkanes; Biomarker; GC; Oil spill identification; Oil weathering; PAH; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242611575     PISSN: 00908312     EISSN: 15210510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00908310303418     Document Type: Article

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