Contamination characteristics of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in river and coastal sediments collected from the multi-industrial city of Ulsan, South Korea

SH Seo, HO Kwon, MK Park, IS Lee, SD Choi - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
… PAHs in river and coastal sediments collected from 17 stations in the Taehwa River and
Ulsan Bay. The objective of this study is to elucidate the contamination characteristics of PAHs in …

Contamination characteristics of siloxanes in coastal sediment collected from industrialized bays in South Korea

D Lee, MK Park, IS Lee, SD Choi - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
… linear siloxanes (L3–L15) in coastal sediment collected from southeastern bays adjacent
to … The contamination levels and spatial distribution of siloxanes in the coastal sediment

Geochemical characteristics of heavy metals in coastal sediments from the northern Beibu Gulf (SW China): the background levels and recent contamination

P Xia, X Meng, A Feng, P Yin, J Zhang… - Environmental Earth …, 2012 - Springer
coastal sediments. The evident enrichment of Zn and Cd is recorded in the surface sediments
of the eastern side of the Guangxi coast … of fine-grained sediments in the region. Although …

Distribution and characteristics of PAHs in sediments from the Mediterranean coastal environment of Egypt

AO Barakat, A Mostafa, TL Wade, ST Sweet… - Marine Pollution …, 2011 - Elsevier
contamination level and distribution of sedimentary PAHs in Mediterranean coastline and
coastal … the potential toxic effects of PAHs bound to bottom sediments, and (3) compare of the …

Assessing sediment contamination in estuaries

PM Chapman, F Wang - Environmental Toxicology and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
sediment contamination assessment methods. The paper begins with a description of the
unique characteristics of … of trace metal contamination in estuarine and coastal sediments in the …

Assessment of elemental contamination in estuarine and coastal environments based on geochemical and statistical modeling of sediments

PJ Hanson, DW Evans, DR Colby… - Marine Environmental …, 1993 - Elsevier
… of sediment contamination and, therefore, of general contamination in coastal marine …
background levels in sediments of different origins and textural characteristics. Without correction …

Sediment characteristics and microbiological contamination of beach sand–A case–study in the archipelago of Madeira

R Abreu, C Figueira, D Romão, J Brandão… - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
… The protection works decreased the natural dynamics of the coastal environment, providing
conditions that favour microbial contamination of the sand to levels not allowed for in natural …

Review on the contamination and remediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coastal soil and sediments

C Dai, Y Han, Y Duan, X Lai, R Fu, S Liu… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
… the PAHs pollution characteristics of different coastal areas, … to remediate soils and sediments
contaminated with PAHs. However, it … In view of that, we analyzed the characteristics of the …

Heavy metal contamination in coastal sediments and soils near the Brazilian Antarctic Station, King George Island

IR Santos, EV Silva-Filho, CEGR Schaefer… - Marine pollution …, 2005 - Elsevier
… Taking into account these characteristics and in the absence of other reference values, such
… In this paper, soil and coastal sediments of Admiralty Bay were characterized in reference to …

Arsenic (As) contamination in sediments from coastal areas of China

X Liu, B Zeng, G Lin - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
… , we statistically analysed the As contamination levels in coastal sediments of China. More
… distribution characteristics and potential risks of As in estuarine and coastal sediments of …