Plastic pellets and tar on Spain's Mediterranean beaches

Plastic pellets and tar on Spain's Mediterranean beaches

754 C. Chemical Oceanography C210. Pollution (see also B350-Atmospheric pollution, Cll0-Radioactivity, radioisotopes, E300-Effects of pollution, F25...

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C. Chemical Oceanography

C210. Pollution (see also B350-Atmospheric pollution, Cll0-Radioactivity, radioisotopes, E300-Effects of pollution, F250W a s t e disposal)

87:5018 Breder, R., 1987. Distribution of heavy metals in Ligurian and Tyrrhenian coastal waters. Sci. total Environment, 60: 197-212. Inst. of Applied Physical Chem., Nuclear Res. Center, Julich, P.O. Box 1913, D-5170 Julich, FRG. 87-5019 Dzombak, D.A. and F.M.M. Morel, 1987. Adsorption of inorganic pollutants in aquatic systems. J. hydraul. Engng, Am. Soc. cir. Engrs, 113(4):430475. Adsorption of inorganic solutes is viewed as a site-specific process in which ions bind (chemically) at functional groups on particle surfaces. Surface complexation reactions are distinguished from reactions among monomeric solutes. Electrostatic effects are accounted for by applying a coulombic correction factor (activity coefficient) to intrinsic surface complexation constants. These models can be used to predict inorganic ion adsorption on hydrous oxides for changing solution conditions on the basis of fewer data. Includes 116 references. Engr,, Rizzo Assoc., Inc., 10 Duff Rd., Suite 300, Pittsburgh, PA 15235, USA.

87:5020 Hall, L.W. Jr., M.J. Lenkevich, W.S. Hall and A.E. Pinkney, 1987. Evaluation of butyltin compounds in Maryland waters of Chesapeake Bay. Mar. Pollut. Bull., 18(2):78-83. Johns Hopkins Univ., APL, Aquatic Ecol. Section, Shady Side, MD 20764, USA. 87:5021 Langlois, D., R.J. Cooper, N.H. Clark and D.A. Ratkowsky, 1987, The effect of a mercury containment programme at a zinc smelting plant on the mercury content of sand flathead in the Derwent Estuary. Mar. Pollut. Bull., 18(2):67-70. Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd., Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. 87:5022 Macko, S.A., J.K. Winters and P.L. Parker, 1987. High molecular weight hydrocarbons in particulate matter of the northwest Gulf of Mexico. Mar. environ. Res., 21(1):3-9. A study of hydrocarbons suspended in particulate matter isolated from surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico was conducted in 1977. This paper docu-

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ments baseline concentrations of saturate and aromatic components which appear to have a petroleum origin prior to recent major oil spills in the Gulf. Whereas the particulates did not appear to contain pelagic tar and did contain several components with characteristic mass spectra of natural marine hydrocarbons, unequivocal mass spectra of numerous non-pyrogenic PAH were obtained. Normal alkane concentrations decreased with distance from shore: however, PAH tended to be more concentrated offshore. This distribution may be related to a shore source near the study site or the result of water mass variations on the shelf. Dept. of Earth Sci., Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF, A1B 3X5, Canada.

87:5023 Samhan, Omar, Mazin Zarba and Victor Anderlini, 1987. Multivariate geochemical investigation of trace metal pollution in Kuwait marine sediments. Mar. environ. Res., 21(1):31-48. Environ. and Earth Sci. Div., Kuwait Inst. for Sci. Res., P.O. Box 24885, Safat, Kuwait. 87:5024 Shiber, J.G., 1987. Plastic pellets and tar on Spain's Mediterranean beaches. Mar. Pollut. Bull., 18(2):84-86. Calle Ronda 7-3A, 29680 Estepona, Malaga, Spain. 87:5025 Veron, Alain, C.E. Lambert, Ann Isley, Philippe Linet and Francis Grousset, 1987. Evidence of recent lead pollution in deep northeast Atlantic sediments. Nature, Lond., 326(6110):278-281. In two short cores from the NE Atlantic, lead concentrations in surficial sediments (21.0 and 15.0 ppm in the top cm) are higher than in the uppermost 10 cm of the cores (6.0 and 2.8 ppm), and are likely to be enhanced from anthropogenic sources. The quantity of lead stored in these surficial sediments (5.7 and 2.5 /xg cm-~) is of the same order as the amount of pollutant lead present in the dissolved state in the water column. Centre des Faibles Radioactivites, Domaine du CNRS, 91190 Gifsur-Yvette, France.

C280. Books, collections (general) 87:5026 Malissa, H. et al., 1987. First International Symposium on philosophy and history in analytical chemistry. Wien, November 22-23, 1985. Z. analyt. Chem,, 326(4):301-330; 9 papers.