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2001 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA2 Environmental Sampling Survey, North Sea, May 2001 Data Report ERTSL 637 - Sediment hydrocarbons and metals analyses

Sediment samples were collected from selected areas of the southern North Sea as part of the ongoing Department of Trade and Industry's (now Department of Energy and Climate Change) Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA2). The aim of the survey was to describe the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of a range of offshore sandbanks and pockmarks (more than 12 km from the coast). The survey focused on three main study areas in the southern North Sea: the Dogger Bank study area; the South Fladen Pockmark study area and a major sand bank area off the coasts of Norfolk and Lincolnshire. This report presents the following sediment data: Total hydrocarbon and n-alkane concentrations; 2 to 6 ring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) content; selected metals concentrations.
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publication: 2001-05-01
2001-05-05 - 2001-05-21
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The sampling strategy of the identified sandbanks was developed by Hartley Anderson Ltd (HAL - contracted as principal scientists). Sampling operations were conducted from the R/V Kommandor Jack with overall direction of field operations undertaken by HAL as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. ERT (Scotland) Ltd (ERTSL) was contracted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) via Geotek Ltd/HAL to retrieve the seabed samples as well as processing, storage and chain-of-custody of the samples prior to initiation of the analysis programme by ERTSL. The analyses were: Total hydrocarbon and n-alkane concentrations by gas chromatography (GC); 2 to 6 ring polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (P AH) content by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS); Selected metals concentrations. This resulted in the publication of this report in 2001.
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British Geological Survey (BGS)
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2011-08-30

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