Abstract
Crude oil contains many kinds of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and its release into the marine environment causes serious damage. It is important to understand the behavior and biological effects of PAHs as components of oil. Over the last five decades, many large-scale oil spills, including the Gulf War oil spill in 1991 and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, have occurred in the world. This chapter describes the long-term impact on marine and coastal environments by C-heavy (the last distilled fraction of heavy oil) oil spilled from the Nakhodka in the Japan Sea in 1997, where polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were monitored as pollution markers.
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Hayakawa, K. (2018). Oil Spills and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. In: Hayakawa, K. (eds) Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6775-4_16
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