Assessment of persistent organochlorine residues in sediments of Hadramout coastal area, Gulf of Aden, Yemen

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1053-1058

  Mostafa, Alaa R ^a   Wade, Terry L ^b   Sweet, Stephen T ^b   Al Alimi, Abdel Kawi A ^c   Barakat, Assem O ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HADHRAMOUT UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PERSISTENCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; YEMEN;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; GULF OF ADEN; HADRAMOUT; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST; YEMEN;

EID: 34447127525     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.03.018     Document Type: Article

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