Oil spill environmental forensics: The Hebei spirit oil spill case

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6431-6437

  Yim, Un Hyuk ^a   Kim, Moonkoo ^a   Ha, Sung Yong ^a   Kim, Sunghwan ^b   Shim, Won Joon ^a  

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

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

BENTHIC FAUNA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FORENSICS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; FLUOROMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAIN; ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY; KOREA; LEGAL EVIDENCE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; OIL SPILL; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER CONTENT; WEATHERING;

FORENSIC SCIENCES; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CHINA; HEBEI;

EID: 84862534064     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3004156     Document Type: Review

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