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Science 25 November 1977:
Vol. 198. no. 4319, pp. 829 - 831
DOI: 10.1126/science.198.4319.829
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Sedimentary Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: The Historical Record

RONALD A. HITES 1, ROBERT E. LAFLAMME 1, and JOHN W. FARRINGTON 2

1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
2 Chemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in three sections of a dated sediment core from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, have been analyzed by gas chromatographic spectrometry. This historical information suggests that sedimentary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, at least at this location, result primarily from the anthropogenic combustion of fossil fuels.

Submitted on April 5, 1977
Revised on June 13, 1977


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