Steroids as sewage specific indicators in New York Bight sediments
- 1 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
- Vol. 17 (4) , 491-498
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01685943
Abstract
Sediments of the New York Bight were examined for steroidal compounds and found to contain relatively large amounts of coprostanol and 24 3-ethyl coprostanol. These steroids were found to be derived from sewage, and it is suggested that they be used as sewage tracers in marine sediments.Keywords
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