Hydrocarbon Biogeochemical Setting of the Baffin Island Oil Spill Experimental Sites. I. Sediments

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Cretney, Walter J., Green, David R., Fowler, Brian R., Humphrey, Blair, Fiest, David L., Boehm, Paul D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1987
• Subjects: Beaches; Bottom sediments; Canada. Baffin Island Oil Spill Project; Composition; Hydrocarbons; Marine oil spills; Sediments (Geology); Eclipse Sound; Nunavut; Hatt; Cape; waters; Ragged Channel; Arctic; Baffin Island; Canada; Cape Hatt; Arctique*; Baffin
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64856

A baseline for petroleum residues in the sediments of the Cape Hatt Island in arctic Canada was obtained in anticipation of controlled oil releases of the Baffin Island Oil Spill (BIOS) Project. In subtidal sediments, the existing background of petroleum residues has an upper limit in the low to sub...