Depositional history of sedimentary linear alkylbenzenes (LABs) in a large South American industrial coastal area (Santos Estuary, Southeastern Brazil)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3355-3364

  Martins, César C ^a,b   Bícego, Márcia C ^b   Mahiques, Michel M ^b   Figueira, Rubens C L ^b   Tessler, Moyses G ^b   Montone, Rosalinda C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Linear alkylbenzenes; Santos estuary; Sediments; Sewage

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AREA; COASTAL SEDIMENTS; CONCENTRATION VALUES; DOMESTIC WASTES; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; LINEAR ALKYL BENZENE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; OIL CRISIS; POPULATION GROWTH; SANTOS ESTUARY; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTHEASTERN BRAZIL; WASTE DISCHARGES;

BIODEGRADATION; CESIUM; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTUARIES; INDUSTRY; LABORATORIES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

EFFLUENTS;

ALKYLBENZENE; CESIUM 137; ORGANIC CARBON;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; DOMESTIC WASTE; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SEWAGE;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DOMESTIC WASTE; ESTUARY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION GROWTH; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BRAZIL; SANTOS ESTUARY; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 77956615477     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.040     Document Type: Article

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