Monitoring of pollution in sediments of the coasts in Egyptian Red Sea
- Abdallah, Renee I.
- Khalil, Nagla M.
- Roushdy, Mohamed I.
Publication date
March 2016
DOI Publisher
Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.Abstract
AbstractPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and aliphatic hydrocarbons (AHs) were analyzed in surface sediments collected from Suez till Hurgharda coasts to establish baseline levels for various types of organic pollutants before the anticipated identification of anthropogenic activities, petrogenic and biogenic. AHs for all samples were dominated by unresolved complex mixture (UCM), and petrogenic mixed with biogenic sources. Results also revealed that sedimentary PAHs mainly originated from pyrolysis sources
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