Petroleum Biomarker Fingerprinting for Oil Spill Characterization and Source Identification

Oil Spill Environmental Forensics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 73-146

  Wang, Zhendi ^a   Yang, Chun ^a   Fingas, Merv ^a   Hollebone, Bruce ^a   Hyuk Jae Yim, Un ^b   Ryoung Oh, Jae ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

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

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