Century-long source apportionment of PAHs in athabasca oil sands region lakes using diagnostic ratios and compound-specific carbon isotope signatures

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6155-6163

  Jautzy, Josué ^a   Ahad, Jason M E ^b   Gobeil, Charles ^a   Savard, Martine M ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE CONTAMINATION; ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS; BOREAL FOREST ECOSYSTEMS; CANADIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC RATIO; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SOURCE DISCRIMINATION;

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; ISOTOPES; LAKES; OIL SANDS; OPEN PIT MINING; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ASPHALT; CARBON; DIBENZOTHIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEPOSITION; HEADWATER; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; OIL SAND; PAH; PETROGENESIS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; ATHABASCA OIL SAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST; LAKE; LAKE SEDIMENT; SAND; WIND EROSION;

CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PHENANTHRENES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; THIOPHENES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

CANADA;

EID: 84879216743     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400642e     Document Type: Article

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