Organic Matter of Bottom Sediments of the Crimean and Caucasian Coasts (Azov and Black Seas)
Journal: Ekologicheskaya bezopasnost pribrezhnoy i shel fovoy zon morya
Year: 2021

As part of the 113th cruise of the R/V “Professor Vodyanitsky”, research was conducted on organic pollution of bottom sediments in the coastal areas of Crimea and the Caucasus, as well as the water area in front of the Kerch Strait. Concentration of chloroformextractable substances was determined by the weight method and that of petroleum hydrocarbons was determined using infrared spectrometry. Both in 2020 and 2016 (the 83d cruise of the R/V “Professor Vodyanitsky”), properties of the bottom se