Aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments of the Slovenian coastal area (Gulf of Trieste, northern Adriatic)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7439-7452

  Bajt, Oliver ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Gulf of Trieste; Keywords Aliphatic hydrocarbons; Pollution; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL THRESHOLDS; COASTAL AREA; DIAGENETICS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NEARSHORES; NORTHERN ADRIATIC; PERYLENES; PETROGENIC; RANGE MEDIAN; TOXICOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRIESTE; UNRESOLVED COMPLEX MIXTURES;

COASTAL ZONES; HYDROCARBONS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; POLLUTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ALIPHATIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BIOGENIC DERIVED CMPOUND; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; PERYLENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; PYROLYTIC CARBON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIAGENESIS; PAH; PETROGENESIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TOXICITY TEST;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LINEAR SYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEARSHORE; OFFSHORE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SLOVENIA; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SLOVENIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

ADRIATIC SEA; GULF OF TRIESTE; KOPER; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PIRAN; SLOVENIA;

EID: 84868212595     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2511-y     Document Type: Article

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