Detection of intermittent sewage pollution in a subtropical, oligotrophic, semi-enclosed embayment system using sterol signatures in sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 792-802

  Pratt, Catherine ^a   Warnken, Jan ^a   Leeming, Rhys ^a   Arthur, James M ^a   Grice, Darren I ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT QUALITY; SEWAGE BIOMARKERS;

ALCOHOLS; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

WATER POLLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTANOL; COPROSTEROL; STEROL DERIVATIVE;

ALCOHOLS; BIOMARKERS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); WATER POLLUTION;

BIOMARKER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; MARINE SEDIMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEWAGE; STEROL;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATERS; FIELD STUDY; SEA POLLUTION; SEWAGE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHOLESTANOL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; SEWAGE; SITOSTEROLS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GOLD COAST; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 33846842517     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061450f     Document Type: Article

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