DISTRIBUTION OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON CONCENTRATIONS IN COASTAL SEDIMENTS ALONG TAMILNADU COAST, INDIA
Subramanian VEERASINGAM1, Pitchaikkaran RAJA2*<, Ramdoss VENKATACHALAPATHY2, Rajarethinam MOHAN1 & Palanivel SUTHARSAN1
1<Department of Physics, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar - 608 002, Tamilnadu, India, casmbphy@yahoo.com
*2 Centre of Advanced study in Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, Annamalai University, Parangipettai - 608 502, Tamilnadu, India.
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Abstract
The distribution of petroleum hydrocarbons along the coastal surface sediments of six stations between Pondicherry and Nagapattinam, Bay of Bengal, India were made during 2008. The Petroleum Hydrocarbon Concentrations (PHc) were in the range 1.48 to 4.23 ppm. The PHc in Bay of Bengal is comparatively lower than in the Arabian Sea. The petroleum hydrocarbon concentrations are high in clay rich sediments than sand. The study revealed that the PHc values of Tamilnadu coastal sediments are much lower than the values reported from selected costal areas including the sediment of the Indian coast.
Keywords:
- Petroleum
- hydrocarbons
- Coastal
- sediments
- Tamilnadu
- coast
- Bay
- of
- Bengal
- India
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Subramanian VEERASINGAM, Pitchaikkaran RAJA, Ramdoss VENKATACHALAPATHY, Rajarethinam MOHAN & Palanivel SUTHARSAN
(2010). DISTRIBUTION OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON CONCENTRATIONS IN COASTAL SEDIMENTS ALONG TAMILNADU COAST, INDIA
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