Characterization of subsurface polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the Deepwater Horizon site

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Diercks, Arne R ^a,b   Highsmith, Raymond C ^b   Asper, Vernon L ^a,b   Joung, Dongjoo ^a   Zhou, Zhengzhen ^a   Guo, Laodong ^a   Shiller, Alan M ^a   Joye, Samantha B ^c   Teske, Andreas P ^d   Guinasso, Norman ^e   Wade, Terry L ^e   Lohrenz, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; MARINE BIOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL WELLS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; WELLHEADS;

BEAM ATTENUATION; DEEPWATER; DEPTH LAYERS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; IN-SITU; MARINE ORGANISMS; MISSISSIPPI CANYON; SUBSURFACE WATERS; WATER SAMPLES;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

DEEP WATER; FLUORESCENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PAH; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TOXICITY; WELLHEAD;

EID: 78049332023     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045046     Document Type: Article

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