Distribution of sewage input in marine sediments around a maritime Antarctic research station indicated by molecular geochemical indicators

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4665-4671

  Montone, Rosalinda C ^a   Martins, César C ^a,b   Bícego, Márcia C ^a   Taniguchi, Satie ^a   Albuquerque Moreira da Silva, Denis ^a   Campos, Lúcia S ^c   Weber, Rolf Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Fecal steroids; Linear alkylbenzenes; Sediments; Sewage contamination

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC STATIONS; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; BASELINE VALUES; COPROSTANOL; DRY WEIGHT; EPI-COPROSTANOL; FECAL STEROIDS; FECAL STEROLS; GEOCHEMICAL INDICATORS; LINEAR ALKYL BENZENE; LOW CORRELATION; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NATURAL SOURCES; RESEARCH STATIONS; SEWAGE CONTAMINATION;

ALCOHOLS; CONTAMINATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

LIPIDS;

ALKYLBENZENE; COPROSTEROL; EPICOPROSTEROL; ORGANIC MATTER; STEROL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHOLESTANOL; EPICOPROSTANOL; SEA WATER; SEWAGE; STEROID; WATER POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE SEDIMENT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEWAGE; STEROID;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IONIZATION; KINETICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CHOLESTANOL; CHOLESTANOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SEAWATER; SEWAGE; STEROIDS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ADMIRALTY BAY; ANTARCTICA; COMANDANTE FERRAZ; KING GEORGE ISLAND; MARTEL INLET; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EID: 77955921345     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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