An integrated case study for evaluating the impacts of an oil refinery effluent on aquatic biota in the Delaware River: Advanced chemical fingerprinting of PAHs

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 771-836

  Uhler, Allen D ^a   Emsbo Mattingly, Stephen ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Hall Jr , Lenwood W ^b   Burton, Dennis T ^b  

^a NewFields Environmental Forensics Practice LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaware River; Oil refinery effluent; PAH fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

BIVALVIA;

EID: 24944493257     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030591008945     Document Type: Article

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