Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in harbor sediments from Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1324-1332

  Mohammed, Azad ^a   Peterman, Paul ^b   Echols, Kathy ^b   Feltz, Kevin ^b   Tegerdine, George ^b   Manoo, Anton ^a   Maraj, Dexter ^a   Agard, John ^a   Orazio, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs); Persistent organic pollutants; Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); Sea Lots; Trinidad; Trinidad and Tobago

Indexed keywords

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SEA LOTS; TRINIDAD; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; PARKS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PORTS AND HARBORS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HARBOR; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PESTICIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

PORT OF SPAIN; TRINIDAD [TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 79958772819     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.03.043     Document Type: Article

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