Research Sources, Distribution, and Water Column Processes of Aliphatic and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Northwestern Black Sea Water CRISTINA MALDONADO,† J O S E P M . B A Y O N A , * ,† A N D LAURENT BODINEAU‡ Environmental Chemistry Department, C.I.D.-C.S.I.C., Jordi Girona 18, E-08034, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, and Universite´ de Lille, Laboratory of Analytical and Marine Chemistry, CNRS, EP1750 Elico, Baˆtement C8, Villeneuve d’Asq, France
Aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons have been determined in (28 samples) suspended particulate matter (>0.7 µm) collected at subsurficial seawater and three vertical profiles in a transect from the continental shelf, slope, and deep basin (15 samples) of the western Black Sea. The dissolved phase (
