Establishing Criteria of Relative Abundance of Alkyl Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) for Differentiation of Pyrogenic and Petrogenic PAHs: An Application to Indian Sediment

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 312-331

  Saha, Mahua ^a   Takada, Hideshige ^a   Bhattacharya, Badal ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

alkyl polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); geochemical indicator; hopanes; petrogenic; pyrogenic; sedimentary PAH; source identification; threshold value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871007789     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2012.729005     Document Type: Article

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