Perfluorinated compounds in surficial sediments of the Ganges River and adjacent Sundarban mangrove wetland, India

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2829-2833

  Corsolini, Simonetta ^a   Sarkar, Santosh Kumar ^b   Guerranti, Cristiana ^a   Bhattacharya, Bhaskar Deb ^b   Rakshit, Dibyendu ^b   Jonathan, M P ^c   Godhantaraman, Nallamuthu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Ganges (Hugli) River; PFCs; PFOA; PFOS; Sediments; Sundarban wetland

Indexed keywords

DETECTION LEVELS; DETECTION LIMITS; GANGES RIVER; HPLC-MS; MEAN VALUES; MODERATE CONCENTRATION; MONITORING PROGRAMS; PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS; PFCS; PFOA; PFOS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

EFFLUENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

RIVERS;

PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EFFLUENT; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; FLUORINE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MANGROVE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; WASTEWATER; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIA; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MANGROVE; POLLUTION MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUOROCARBONS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIA; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

GANGES RIVER; INDIA;

EID: 84870238882     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.09.019     Document Type: Article

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