1. Distribution of petroleum hydrocarbons and organochlorinated contaminants in marine biota and coastal sediments from the ROPME Sea Area during 2005.
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de Mora S, Tolosa I, Fowler SW, Villeneuve JP, Cassi R, and Cattini C
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- Animals, Biota, Bivalvia metabolism, Environmental Monitoring, Fishes metabolism, Geologic Sediments chemistry, Hydrocarbons metabolism, Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated metabolism, Indian Ocean, Pesticides analysis, Pesticides metabolism, Petroleum metabolism, Polychlorinated Biphenyls analysis, Polychlorinated Biphenyls metabolism, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons analysis, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons metabolism, Water Pollutants, Chemical metabolism, Water Pollution, Chemical statistics & numerical data, Aquatic Organisms metabolism, Hydrocarbons analysis, Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated analysis, Petroleum analysis, Water Pollutants, Chemical analysis
- Abstract
The composition and spatial distribution of various petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs), comprising both aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and selected chlorinated pesticides and PCBs were measured in biota and coastal sediments from seven countries in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman (Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates). Evidence of extensive marine contamination with respect to organochlorinated compounds and PHs was not observed. Only one site, namely the BAPCO oil refinery in Bahrain, was considered to be chronically contaminated. Comparison of the results from this survey for Σ DDTs and Σ PCBs in rock oysters from the Gulf of Oman with similar measurements made at the same locations over the past two decades indicates a temporal trend of overall decreasing Σ PCB concentrations in oysters, whereas Σ DDTs levels have little changed during that period., (Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2010
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