The PAH level, distribution and composition in surface sediments from a Mediterranean Lagoon: The Marano and Grado Lagoon (Northern Adriatic Sea, Italy)

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediments from the western Adriatic Sea: Sources, historical trends and inventories

“…Although there is plenty of information regarding contaminant concentrations in coastal and riverine systems in the Adriatic Sea (Galassi and Provini, 1981;Acquavita et al, 2014;Guerra et al, 2014;Viganò et al, 2015), marine sediments have been studied to a lesser extension and usually within delimited regions (e.g. Caricchia et al, 1993;Fowler et al, 2000).…”

Particulate PAHs and n-alkanes in the air over Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Sea

“…These investigations were focused on both macro and micro-components, inorganic and organic substances, gaseous compounds, semi-volatile and particulate species. Nevertheless, rather than to marine air attention was overall paid to sea water (dissolved and suspended materials: Maldonado et al, 1999;Campanelli et al, 2004;Nizzetto et al, 2008;Berrojalbiz et al, 2011;Castro-Jim enez et al, 2012;Marrucci et al, 2013;Siemers et al, 2015), sediments (Gogou et al, 2000;Tsapakis et al, 2006;Cardellicchio et al, 2007;Perra et al, 2011;Acquavita et al, 2012Acquavita et al, , 2014Marini and Frapiccini, 2013;Net et al, 2015) and sea/air interface (Marty et al, 1988;Manodori et al, 2006;Lohmann et al, 2009;Guitart et al, 2010;Mulder et al, 2014).…”

Organic pollution in surficial sediments of Tripoli harbour, Lebanon

“…They can be originated either from natural processes including biomass burning, volcanic eruptions and diagenesis (Wang et al, 2007), and from anthropogenic inputs such as fuels or oil spills and their incomplete combustion. Anthropogenic origins are generally the major sources of PAHs pollution in the environment (Chen et al, 2013;Acquavita et al, 2014;Mirza et al, 2014). PAHs can enter water surface as a mixture origin via atmospheric deposition, water run-off, municipal and industrial effluents, sewage outfalls, oil spillage and maritime transport (Maher and Aislabie, 1992;Manoli and Samara, 1999;Zhou and Maskaoui, 2003).…”

“…In addition, due to their hydrophobic properties (low water solubility Kow (PAHs) = 10 À7 to 10 À10 mol/m 3 ) and strong affinity for organic matter (Culotta et al, 2006;Acquavita et al, 2014) POPs tend to accumulate in fine grained sediments. For our case, a geotechnical investigation Report was prepared for Tripoli harbour by (Hatem, 2002) shows that the sediments types within old basin are consisted an approximately 7 to 10 m thick layer of clayey sand to sandy clay with gravel and pebbles sometimes cemented (conglomeratic).…”