Petroleum-related hydrocarbons in deep and subsurface sediments from South-Western Barents Sea

• Published in: Marine Environmental Research
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Biomarkers; hopanes; sediments; pockmarks; PAH; alkanes; Barents Sea; Bergen; Gramberg; Norway; Petrova
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/63615; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2011.04.003

Abstract Subsurface sediments from a pockmark area in South-Western Barents Sea have been earlier found to contain elevated levels of petroleum-related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. This work describes a comprehensive analysis of various biomarkers, including the highly source-specific hopanes,...