The relationship between the concentrations and distribution of organic pollutants and black carbon content in benthic sediments in the Gulf of Gdańsk, Baltic Sea

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1464-1475

  Staniszewska, M ^a   Burska, D ^a   Sapota, G ^b   Bogdaniuk, M ^b   Borowiec, K ^a   Nosarzewska, I ^a   Bolalek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b Maritime Institute of Gdansk   (Poland)

Author keywords

Black carbon; Gulf of Gdansk; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BENTHIC SEDIMENTS; BENZO(A)PYRENE; BLACK CARBON; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DREDGED SPOILS; FLUORANTHENE; GULF OF GDANSK; HARBOR SEDIMENTS; LOSS ON IGNITION; PERYLENES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYCYCLIC AROMATICS; TOTAL CARBON; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VISTULA RIVER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ANTHRACENE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PORTS AND HARBORS; RIVER POLLUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; BENZO[GHI]PERYLENE; BENZO[K]FLUORANTHENE; BLACK CARBON; DIBENZ[A,H]ANTHRACENE; FLUORANTHENE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PYRENE;

BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MARINE POLLUTION; OCEAN DUMPING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PAH; PCB; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BENTHOS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOOT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GDANSK BASIN; GDANSK DEEP; GULF OF GDANSK;

EID: 79959331334     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.04.013     Document Type: Article

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