Source apportionment of elevated PAH concentrations in sediments near deep marine outfalls in Esquimalt and Victoria, BC, Canada: Is coal from an 1891 shipwreck the source?

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-37

  Yunker, Mark B ^a   Perreault, Avrael ^b   Lowe, Christopher J ^b  

^a Capital Regional District ^*  (Canada)

^b Capital Regional District   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE; BIOMARKERS; COAL; COAL GAS; COAL TAR; DREDGING; FUELS; GAS PLANTS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NAPHTHALENE; OUTFALLS; SEDIMENTS; SHIPS; SOOT; WASTE INCINERATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION; MASS-BALANCE CALCULATIONS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA; UNRESOLVED COMPLEX MIXTURES;

COAL COMBUSTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOMARKER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL MASS BALANCE; COAL; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP SEA; DREDGING; MARINE SEDIMENT; PAH; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEWAGE OUTFALL; SOOT; WASTEWATER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; ESQUIMALT; VANCOUVER ISLAND; VICTORIA [VANCOUVER ISLAND];

EID: 84858729080     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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