Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Data for Oil Samples from the Bemidji Oil Spill Research Site, 1987-2020
Description
The USGS is conducting a long-term study of a terrestrial crude oil spill that resulted from a ruptured pipeline in 1979. Samples of oil bailed from wells were analyzed for polyaromatic hydrocarbons by a commercial lab. A total of 32 samples were analyzed in three batches. A sample that serves as a surrogate for the original spilled oil was submitted with each batch. For each oil sample, concentrations of a conservative compound can be compared to that found in the original spilled oil surrogate to obtain an estimate of the total oil mass that has been biodegraded.
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SPPFQY |
Tags
- environment
- dissolved-organic-compounds
- usgs-611feaeed34e40dd9c01e1d5
- contaminant-transport
- beltrami
- geochemistry
- gas-chromatography
- petroleum
- contamination-and-pollution
- organic-pollutants
- biogeochemical-cycling
- industrial-pollution
- minnesota
- biodegradation
- mass-spectroscopy