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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 482, Issue -, Pages 42-52Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.02.106
Keywords
PAHs; Sediment core; Temporal distribution; Source; Socioeconomic index
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- CAPES (Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel)
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Concentrations of polycydic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined in a sediment core collected from the Barigui River, in Curitiba, South Brazil. The USEPA's 16 priority PAH concentrations ranged from 39 ng g(-1) to 2350 ng g(-1) of dry sediment over a period that corresponds temporally to between ca. 1855 and 2011. The concentrations and patterns of PAH distribution changed over this time period and may be associated with several episodes in the Curitiba's history. Two major PAHs concentration peaks occurred in approximately 1910 and 1970, which might reflect population increases due to immigration programs in the 1890s and the sudden economic development that occurred in Brazil from 1960 to 1980, The Economic Miracle Period, respectively. Isomeric ratios revealed that the PAHs had predominantly pyrolytic sources. The population, number of highways and electric energy consumption of Curitiba, as indices of socioeconomic development, were positively correlated with PAH deposition in the sediment core from 1855 to 1970, indicating the influence of socioeconomic development on the environmental load of sedimentary PAHs. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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