Changes of oceanographic characteristics and the state of pollution in the Izmit bay following the earthquake of 1999

Environmental Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-112

  Morkoc, Enis ^a   Tarzan, Legovic ^b   Okay, Oya ^c   Tufekci, Huseyin ^d   Tufekci, Vildan ^d   Tolun, Leyla ^d   Karakoc, Fatma ^d  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coastal contamination; Oceanography; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER QUALITY;

BRACKISH BLACK SEA WATERS; COASTAL CONTAMINATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE DISCHARGE; TWO-LAYER ECOSYSTEM;

WATER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DOMESTIC WASTE; HALOCLINE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA; IZMIT BAY; KOCAELI [TURKEY]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 34547741641     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0622-5     Document Type: Article

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