Identifying source correlation parameters for hydrocarbon wastes using compound-specific isotope analysis

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 489-498

  Hough, Rupert L ^a   Whittaker, Martin ^b   Fallick, Anthony E ^c   Preston, Tom ^c   Farmer, John G ^b   Pollard, Simon J T ^a  

^a School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contaminated land; Environmental diagnostics; Heavy oils; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTAMINATED LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL DIAGNOSTICS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

CONTAMINATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS; ISOTOPES; SOILS; WASTES;

SOIL POLLUTION;

ALKANE; CARBON; CARBON 13; FUEL OIL; HYDROCARBON; ISOPRENOID; ISOPRENOID NORPRISTANE; PETROLEUM; PRISTANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKANE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORRELATION; HEAVY OIL; ISOPRENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OIL POLLUTION; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROCOSM; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; WASTE;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PETROLEUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 33744901147     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.11.043     Document Type: Article

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