http://faculty.wwu.edu/~shulld/ESCI%20101/Andrady2011Plastics.pdf

Microplastics in the marine environment

One of the most ubiquitous and long-lasting recent changes to the surface of our planet is the accumulation and fragmentation of plastics. Within just a few decades since mass production of plastic...

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Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments.

http://www.no-sea-and-earth-pollution.org/ALBATROSS-ARTICLES_files/pollution-of-the-marine-environment-derraik-2002.pdf

The pollution of the marine environment by plastic debris: a review.

Over the past five or six decades, contamination and pollution of the world’s enclosed seas, coastal waters and the wider open oceans by plastics and other synthetic, non-biodegradable materials (generally known as ‘marine debris’) has been an ever-increasing phenomenon. The sources of these polluting materials are both land- and marine-based, their origins may be local or distant, and the environmental consequences are many and varied. The more widely recognized problems are typically associated with entanglement, ingestion, suffocation and general debilitation, and are often related to stranding events and public perception. Among the less frequently recognized and recorded problems are global hazards to shipping, fisheries and other maritime activities. Today, there are rapidly developing research interests in the biota attracted to freely floating (i.e. pelagic) marine debris, commonly known as ‘hangers-on and hitch-hikers’ as well as material sinking to the sea floor despite being buoyant. Dispersal of aggressive alien and invasive species by these mechanisms leads one to reflect on the possibilities that ensuing invasions could endanger sensitive, or at-risk coastal environments (both marine and terrestrial) far from their native habitats.

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Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions.

Plastic waste in the marine environment: A review of sources, occurrence and effects.

Tectonics and sedimentation in the Gulf of Corinth and the Zakynthos and Kefallinia channels, Western Greece

Marine Debris on the Seafloor of the Mediterranean Sea: Examples from Two Enclosed Gulfs in Western Greece

A pockmark field in the Patras Gulf (Greece) and its activation during the 14/7/93 seismic event

Sediment Transport processes on an active submarine fault escarpment: Gulf of Corinth, Greece

Opposing models have been proposed for last glacial paleoclimates in the Mediterranean area. To discriminate between the alternative models, we calculate variations in sediment yield within a high-resolution stratigraphic framework developed for the Alkyonides basin, central Greece. Latest Quaternary highstand deposits are distinguised from lowstand Lake Corinth deposits on the basis of seismic reflection data and micropaleontological and palynological analyses of drop cores. After depth conversion and calculation of solid sediment masses in successive time slices, sediment discharge rates during the last glacial lowstand interval (ca. 70-12 ka) are shown to have exceeded discharge rates during the preceeding interglacial highstand interval (ca. 128-70 ka) by =60%, implying enhanced seasonality during the glacial period, with cool, dry summer and wet winter conditions in the region. Sediment yield calculations can thus provide an empirical test of paleoclimate models and offer input to sequence stratigraphic models.

George Ferentinos

Papers

Tectonics and sedimentation in the Gulf of Corinth and the Zakynthos and Kefallinia channels, Western Greece

Marine Debris on the Seafloor of the Mediterranean Sea: Examples from Two Enclosed Gulfs in Western Greece

A pockmark field in the Patras Gulf (Greece) and its activation during the 14/7/93 seismic event

Sediment Transport processes on an active submarine fault escarpment: Gulf of Corinth, Greece

High sediment yields and cool, wet winters: Test of last glacial paleoclimates in the northern Mediterranean