Historical records and the sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the East China Sea

Xiao-yong Duan; Yan-xia Li; Xian-guo Li; Ping Yin

doi:10.31035/cg2018058

2018 Vol. 1, No. 4

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Xiao-yong Duan, Yan-xia Li, Xian-guo Li, Ping Yin, 2018. Historical records and the sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the East China Sea, China Geology, 1, 505-511. doi: 10.31035/cg2018058

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Xiao-yong Duan, Yan-xia Li, Xian-guo Li, Ping Yin, 2018. Historical records and the sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the East China Sea, China Geology, 1, 505-511. doi: 10.31035/cg2018058

Historical records and the sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the East China Sea

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Key Laboratory of Marine Hydrocarbon Resources and Environmental Geology, Ministry of Land and Resources, Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, Qingdao 266071, China
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Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
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Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266235, China

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Corresponding author: dxiaoyong@mail.cgs.gov.cn (Xiao-yong Duan)

Received Date: 15 August 2018

Revised Date: 30 August 2018

Accepted Date: 07 October 2018

Available Online: 07 November 2018

Publish Date: 25 December 2018

Abstract

Abstract

The coastal cities are the most advanced regions in China. In the past few decades, the environment changed very significantly due to large scale human activities in the coastal regions. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in three dated sediment cores from the west coast of the Yellow Sea (core A01), the Yangtze River estuary (YRE; core A02) and the Oujiang River estuary (ORE; core A03) were analyzed to reconstruct the environmental evolutionary process of the east China coastal region over the past century. In the three cores, PAHs concentrations were increased rapidly. Lower concentrations of PAHs were measured in core A02 than in cores A01 and A03. The vertical variation of PAHs in the YRE was dominated by the petrogenic sources. Historical records of PAHs in the ORE were controlled by pyrolytic sources. PAHs on the west coast of the Yellow Sea were contributed by the two sources.
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons /
- East China Sea /
- Coastal sediment /
- Source /
- Depositional record

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