THE AMOCO CADIZ ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 

 PROGRAM 



by 



Paul D. Boehm, Ph.D. 



Environmental Sciences Divisions, ERCO (Energy Resources Company, Inc.), 

 185 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



1 . INTRODUCTION 



2. METHODS AND MATERIALS 



2.1 Sediments and Sediment Cores (Extraction and Processing) 



2.2 Plant and Animal Tissue 



3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 



3.1 Overall Findings 



3.1.1 Weathering of AMOCO CADIZ Oil 



3.1.2 Persistence of Marker Compounds 



3.1.3 Residues in Tissues 



3.1.4 Environmental Variability 



3.2 Surface Sediments (Atlas, University of Louisville) 



3.3 Offshore Sediments (Marchand, CNEXO) 



L'Aber Benoit Sediments (Courtot , U. West Brittany) 



3.4 Sediment Cores (Ward, Montana State University) 



3.5 Oysters and Plaice (Neff, Battelle) 



3.6 Oysters and Fish (Michel, ISTPM) 



3.7 Seaweed and Sediments (Topinka, Bigelow Laboratory 

 for Ocean Sciences) 



4. Conclusions 



5. REFERENCES 



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