DISTRIBUTION AND SOURCES OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS IN SOME MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL SEDIMENTS

Authors
BENLAHCEN KT CHAOUI A BUDZINSKI H BELLOCQ J GARRIGUES PH
Citation
Kt. Benlahcen et al., DISTRIBUTION AND SOURCES OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS IN SOME MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL SEDIMENTS, Marine pollution bulletin, 34(5), 1997, pp. 298-305
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology","Environmental Sciences
Journal title
Marine pollution bulletin → ACNP
ISSN journal
0025326X
Volume
34
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Pages
298 - 305
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-326X(1997)34:5<298:DASOPA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The current report shows that the Lazaret Bay (Toulon Harbour) is high ly contaminated by polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Fourteen PAHs hav e been detected among the 16 species nominated on the EPA priority lis t in an the study locations and in the most contaminated one at a conc entration of higher than 48 mu g g(-1) of dry sediment. It is also sho wn that pyrolytic origin is the main source of these compounds in Medi terranean coastal sediments. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.