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Coastal Seawater<br />

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Total volatile concentrations found in a study of coastal seawater<br />

were between 200 and 500 ng/kg. Higher total concentrations coincided<br />

with the late-winter phytoplankton bloom. Anthropogenic inputs of hydro-<br />

carbons caused similarly high total concentrations.<br />

All of the C13-C17 alkanes and pristane were found at relatively<br />

higher concentrations after a nearby oil spill. The "carbon preference<br />

index" was near i at that time and corroborated the assignment of these<br />

compounds to a fossil fuel source.<br />

Pentadecane and heptadecane showed separate large concentration<br />

increases up to 80 and 20 ng/kg, respectively, in the sumer. The high<br />

"carbon preference index" associated with these concentration maxima

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