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...