Distribution And Source Of Pahs In Surface Sediments Of Canon River Mouth, Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chiu-Wen Chen, Chih-Feng Chen, Cheng-Di Dong
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: PAHs; sediment; river mouth; sediment quality guidelines SQGs; toxic equivalent TEQcarc; Barents Sea; Dahle; Fraser River; Guba Pechenga; Krogh; Pechenga; Sanna; Tarragona
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1077016; https://zenodo.org/record/1077016

Surface sediment samples were collected from the Canon River mouth, Taiwan and analyzed for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Total PAHs concentrations varied from 337 to 1,252 ng/g dry weight, with a mean concentration of 827 ng/g dry weight. The spatial distribution of PAHs reveals that the PAHs concentration is relatively high in the river mouth region, and gradually diminishes toward the harbor region. Diagnostic ratios showed that the possible source of PAHs in the Canon River mouth could be petroleum combustion. The toxic equivalent concentrations (TEQcarc) of PAHs varied from 47 to 112 ng TEQ/g dry weight. Higher total TEQcarc values were found in the river mouth region. As compared with the US Sediment Quality Guidelines (SQGs), the observed levels of PAHs at Canon River mouth were lower than the effects range low (ERL), and would probably not exert adverse biological effects. : {"references": ["L.E. Sverdrup, T. Nielsen, and P.H. 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