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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an anoxic sediment core from the Pettaquamscutt River (Rhode Island, U.S.A.)
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In this paper, 15 sections from an anoxic sediment core were analyzed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and two types of PAH were observed: those from combustion sources such as pyrene and chrysene and those from natural sources, such as retene and perylene.About:
This article is published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.The article was published on 1980-06-01. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Retene & Pyrene.read more
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Bioremediation of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a review of the microbial degradation of benzo[a]pyrene.
Albert L. Juhasz,Ravendra Naidu +1 more
TL;DR: The focuss of this review is on the high molecular weight PAH benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), which has been observed to accumulate in marine organisms and plants which could indirectly cause human exposure through food consumption.
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Quantification of the dilute sedimentary soot phase : Implications for PAH speciation and bioavailability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a method that allows quantification of soot carbon in dilute and complex sedimentary matrices to expand hydrophobic partition models to include soot partitioning.
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Defects in cardiac function precede morphological abnormalities in fish embryos exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
TL;DR: Different PAH compounds have distinct and specific effects on fish at early life history stages, and the relative toxicity of the different mixtures was directly proportional to the amount of phenanthrene, or the dibenzothiophene-phenanthrene total in the mixture.
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Bioaccumulation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Marine Organisms
TL;DR: Partitioning of combustion-derived PAHs between water and sediment may be much less than predicted, possibly because associations with particles are much stronger than expected, and this reduced partitioning may produce erroneous results in predicting bioaccumulation where uptake from water is important.
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Fluxes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to marine and lacustrine sediments in the northeastern United States
TL;DR: The authors measured polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in dated sediment cores from several sites in the northeastern United States ( Lake Superior, Isle Royale, Somes Sound, Hadlock Lower Pond, Coburn Mountain Pond, and outer Boston Harbor).
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The global distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in recent sediments
Raymond Laflamme,Ronald A. Hites +1 more
TL;DR: The qualitative PAH pattern is remarkably constant for most of the locations studied, and the quantitative PAH abundance increases with proximity to urban centers as discussed by the authors, consistent with anthropogenic combustion's being the major source of these compounds.
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Biogeochemistry of Stable Carbon Isotopes
TL;DR: In this paper, a modification in the Nier-type mass spectrometer and a refinement in instrumentation techniques by McKinney et al. [3] finally initiated stable isotope studies of the type that are discussed in this review.
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Poly cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Recent lake sediments—II. Compounds derived from biogenic precursors during early diagenesis
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) derived by early-diagenetic transformations of biogenic precursors are found in Recent sediments of four lakes ( Lake Lucerne, Lake Zurich, Lake Greifensee, and Lake Washington, northwest U.S.A.).
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the environment: homologous series in soils and recent marine sediments☆
W. W. Youngblood,Max Blumer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it is suggested that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are formed in natural fires, are dispersed and mixed by air transport and eventually deposited into surface sediments.
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Diterpenoid compounds and other lipids in deep-sea sediments and their geochemical significance
TL;DR: The presence of polycyclic diterpenoids with the abietane skeleton (mainly dehydroabietic acid) has been identified in sediment samples from the northeast Pacific Ocean, Black Sea, and North Atlantic Ocean as mentioned in this paper.
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