Distribution of trace metals, aliphatic hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediment cores from the Sicily Channel and the Gulf of Tunis (south-western Mediterranean Sea)

Environmental Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-54

  Mzoughi, Nadia ^a   Chouba, Lassaad ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LA MER   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Gulf of Tunis; hydrocarbons; sediment core; Sicily Channel; trace metals

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AROMATIZATION; BIODEGRADATION; CADMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); COPPER; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZINC;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; BACKGROUND LEVEL; GULF OF TUNIS; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METAL ABUNDANCES; MICROPOLLUTANTS; PHYSICO-CHEMICALS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SICILY CHANNEL; TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION; TRACE METAL; TRACE METAL CONCENTRATION; TRACE METALS; VARIABLE CONCENTRATION; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; CADMIUM; COPPER; IRON; LEAD; MANGANESE; MERCURY; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RADIOISOTOPE; TRACE METAL; ZINC;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; BIODEGRADATION; CADMIUM; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PAH; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ISOMER; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RESEARCH; SEA; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

GULF OF TUNIS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; STRAIT OF SICILY;

EID: 79551607197     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2010.483598     Document Type: Article

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