The rates of transport and fates of petroleum hydrocarbons in a controlled marine ecosystem, and a note of analytical variety. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Describes the Marine Ecosystems Research Laboratory (MERL) tanks to which known amounts of water-accommodated No. 2 fuel oil were added. A preliminary budget indicates that the primary loss was to the atmosphere via evaporation. Biodegradation was important for some classes of hydrocarbons and increased with temperature and duration of oil exposure. Particulate material adsorbed hydrocarbons amounting to 15% of the oil added to the tanks, and carried them to the sediment where 7-16% of added oil was eventually found. -from Selected Water Resources Abstracts

published proceedings

  • Proc. 1979 oil spill conference (prevention, behavior, control, cleanup), Los Angeles, Ca., March 1979, (American Petroleum Institute, Washington DC, Publication 4308)

author list (cited authors)

  • Gearing, J. N., Gearing, P. J., Wade, T., & Quinn, J. C.

complete list of authors

  • Gearing, JN||Gearing, PJ||Wade, T||Quinn, JC

publication date

  • January 1979