Tracing sewage pollution in the Pearl River Delta and its adjacent coastal area of South China Sea using linear alkylbenzenes (LABs)

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 158-162

  Luo, Xiao Jun ^a   Chen, She Jun ^a,b   Ni, Hong Gang ^a,b   Yu, Mei ^a,b   Mai, Bi Xian ^a,b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLBENZENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; COASTAL WATER; COASTAL ZONE; DOMESTIC WASTE; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER SAMPLING;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; CHINA; DETERGENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 38049086182     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.09.030     Document Type: Article

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