Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon composition in soils and sediments of high altitude lakes

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-24

  Grimalt, Joan O ^a   Van Drooge, Barend L ^a   Ribes, Alejandra ^a   Fernández, Pilar ^a   Appleby, Peter ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combustion pollution; High maintain areas; Lake pollution; Long range transported pollutants; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Soil pollution

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; COMPOSITION; LAKES; OXIDATION; SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

DIAGENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOUNTAINS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

DITERPENOID; PERYLENE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; LAKE; PAH; POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; SOIL;

AIR POLLUTION; ALTITUDE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIAGENESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; LAKE SEDIMENT; OXIDATION; OXIDATION KINETICS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL; SPAIN;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 2942755735     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2004.02.024     Document Type: Article

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