Petroleum Pollutants in Surface and Groundwater as Indicated by the Carbon-14 Activity of Dissolved Organic Carbon
- 10 January 1975
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 187 (4171), 61-64
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.187.4171.61
Abstract
The 14C activity of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) can be used to distinguish between the fossil organic carbon due to petrochemical effluents and modern organic carbon due to domestic wastes and natural decaying organic matter. Rivers polluted by petrochemical effluents show varying amounts of depression of the DOC 14C activity, reflecting concentrations of 14C-deficient fossil carbon of as much as about 40 percent of the total DOC.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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