Quantitation and Organic Geochemical Characterization of Petroleum-like Materials Found on An Undisturbed Beach of the Padre Island National Seashore
Scalan R, Scanlan R, Winters JK. 1980. Quantitation and Organic Geochemical Characterization of Petroleum-like Materials Found on An Undisturbed Beach of the Padre Island National Seashore. University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas Laboratory. Port Aransas, TX
Report discusses the quantity of petroleum-like materials deposited on a particular beach at Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, and the source of this material. Because of high volume traffic by oil tankers in Corpus Christi Bay, and the natural seeps occurring on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, the source is elusive. Assessment was made of the quantity of petroleum-like materials, collected in alternate months at two two-meter wide transects. The collected tars were analyzed using methods standard in the petroleum industry which characterize the chemical composition of crude petroleums: extraction, asphaltene precipitation, silica-gel chromatography, stable isotopic determination, and gas chromatographic analysis.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Scalan, Richard; Scanlan, Richard; Winters, J
- Date of Issue
- 1980
- Publisher
- University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas Laboratory
- Units
- PAIS
- Keywords
- Beaches, Management, Oil Spills, Padre Island National Seashore, PAIS, tar, Transects