Organic film estuaries

V. Zutic and T. Legovic, A film of organic matter at the fresh-water/sea-water interface of an estuary, Nature 328 (1987) 612-614. 

Sources of surface-active organic matter (SAOM) are varied and include primarily phytoplankton, zooplankton and their degradation products (Zutic et al. 1981, Williams et al. 1985, Henrichs and Williams 1985), but also marine bacteria (Sieburth et al. 1976, Hardy 1982, Carlucci et al. 1985, Van Vleet and Williams 1983), rivers and estuaries (both natural and anthropogenic organic matter) and atmospheric volatiles and dust (Peltzer and Gagosian 1989). Sea surface films are, therefore, complex mixtures of... 

Hazardous waste compounds have a number of effects on the hydrosphere. Perhaps the most serious of these is the contamination of groundwater, which in some cases can be almost irreversible. Waste compounds accumulate in sediments such as river or estuary sediments. Hazardous waste compounds dissolved in, suspended in, or floating as surface films on the surface of water can render it unfit for use and for sustenance of aquatic organisms. 

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