PMID- 35777324 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220804 LR - 20220804 IS - 1879-3363 (Electronic) IS - 0025-326X (Linking) VI - 181 DP - 2022 Aug TI - Deposition records of persistent organic pollutants and black carbon in dated sediment cores from China marginal seas: Implications for terrestrial sources and transport processes. PG - 113874 LID - S0025-326X(22)00556-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113874 [doi] AB - Black carbon (BC) and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were analyzed from three sediment cores collected offshore in the East China Marginal Seas. The results showed steadily increasing or stable BC concentrations and fluxes. By contrast, time trends of POPs fluxes were consistent with historical records of commercial production and use in China. Although the POP inventories decreased significantly with increase in offshore distance, the relatively consistent trends for individual POPs in different sea areas confirmed that the main sources are derived from mainland China and that atmospheric input was an important contribution. POPs inventories decreased by 59-91 % during transport from the Yellow Sea to the remote East China Sea and deposition to the sediment. This suggests that the source signal for POPs may be preserved under stable depositional environments, even though only a fraction of those pollutants are buried in open sea sediments. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Lin, Tian AU - Lin T AD - College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China. Electronic address: tlin@shou.edu.cn. FAU - Han, Yizhen AU - Han Y AD - College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China. FAU - Wu, Zilan AU - Wu Z AD - State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecosystem, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China. FAU - Hu, Limin AU - Hu L AD - College of Marine Geosciences, Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China. FAU - Rose, Neil L AU - Rose NL AD - Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. FAU - Guo, Zhigang AU - Guo Z AD - Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220629 PL - England TA - Mar Pollut Bull JT - Marine pollution bulletin JID - 0260231 RN - 0 (Environmental Pollutants) RN - 0 (Soot) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 7440-44-0 (Carbon) SB - IM MH - Carbon/analysis MH - China MH - Environmental Monitoring MH - *Environmental Pollutants MH - Geologic Sediments MH - Oceans and Seas MH - Persistent Organic Pollutants MH - Soot MH - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - BC OT - Depositional fluxes OT - East China marginal seas OT - Inventory OT - POPs OT - Transport processes EDAT- 2022/07/02 06:00 MHDA- 2022/08/05 06:00 CRDT- 2022/07/01 18:31 PHST- 2021/11/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/06/15 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/06/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/07/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/08/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/07/01 18:31 [entrez] AID - S0025-326X(22)00556-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113874 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mar Pollut Bull. 2022 Aug;181:113874. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113874. Epub 2022 Jun 29.