Characterization of Chronic Sources and Impacts of Tar along the Louisiana Coast

ISBN-13: 9781503215887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 78 str.

U. S. Department of the Interior

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Along the southern coast of Louisiana, nine beach stations, covering an approximate distance of 200 miles between the farthest east and west stations, were selected for collection of deposited pelagic tar and oil during 1992. There existed an extreme difference in petroleum distribution, with 9.6 tar balls per 50 meter station in the east compared to 40 tar balls per station for the west. The samples collected from these stations were analyzed by detailed GC/Ms and are compared for similarities using a source-fingerprinting data synthesis process.