Three decades of TBT contamination in sediments around a large scale shipyard

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 634-642

  Kim, Nam Sook ^a,b   Shim, Won Joon ^a   Yim, Un Hyuk ^a   Ha, Sung Yong ^a   An, Joon Geon ^a   Shin, Kyung Hoon ^b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gohyeon Bay; Sediment core; Shipyard; Surface sediment; Tributyltin

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; GOHYEON BAY; NEAR-SURFACE; OCEAN GOING VESSELS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT CORE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT QUALITY GUIDELINES; SURFACE SEDIMENT; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TRIBUTYLTIN; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ANTIFOULING PAINT; CONTAMINATION; FOULING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHIPYARDS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

SHIPS;

ANTIFOULING AGENT; PAINT; SURFACE WATER; TRIBUTYLTIN;

ANTIFOULING; BAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GUIDELINE; MARINE SEDIMENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; PORT; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TRIBUTYLTIN; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; DENSITY GRADIENT; KOREA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCREENING; SEA; SEDIMENT; SHIP; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SHIPS; TRIALKYLTIN COMPOUNDS;

KOREA;

EID: 79960178549     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.05.065     Document Type: Article

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