To unambiguously identify spilled oils and petroleum products and to link them to the known
sources are extremely important in settling questions of environmental impact and legal …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are sensitive recorders of past human activities in
Prince William Sound, Alaska. In the nearshore subtidal sediments of bays, the fingerprints of …

… However, these biomarkers are somewhat less useful for quantifying the relative
amounts of different petroleum and nonpetroleum hydrocarbon sources (ie allocation) (Page …

… used in this study confirm the general conclusions reached by Page et al. [2], who used pattern
… overall conclusions of this study are similar to those reported by Page et al. [2, 3], the new …

The question often arises after large oil spills as to the extent and effect of oil entering the
subtidal zones adjacent to heavily oiled shorelines. Estimates for a number of large spills …

Prince William Sound (PWS), the site of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on March 24, 1989, is a
large, 8800-km2, subarctic fjord-type embayment of the northern Gulf of Alaska, with …

Experimental designs for evaluating complex mixture toxicity in aquatic environments can
be highly variable and, if not appropriate, can produce and have produced data that are …

… Sample wet weight varied from 10 to 40 g depending on the different studies (see Page
et al. [7]) … The site designations and locations are described in detail in Page et al. [8] …

… and biogenic hydrocarbons in the Amoco Cadiz impact zone; mangrove leaf waxes [6] were
shown to be a major source of biogenic hydrocarbons in a tropical spill site; and Page et al. […

Mussels (Arca zebra) were transplanted to two sites in Castle Harbour and five sites along a
contamination gradient in Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda. After 11–12 days mussels were …