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Various anthropogenic activities result in impacts on coastal areas. Most, however, are restricted to protected coastal sites such as bays and estuaries, or in extreme cases, to semi-enclosed seas such as the North Sea (Irion and Muller 1990). It is believed that open continental shelves are hardly affected by land-based pollutant sources, and thus very few studies have dealt with the distribution of pollutants in coastal shelf sediments. Exceptionally, one activity that has triggered some important studies on the fate of pollutants in coastal shelf sediments is offshore oil exploration. This activity is an important potential source of some pollutants, both during drilling for prospecting and production and during oil production and transport operations (Kennicutt 1995).
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Rezende, C.E., Ovalle, A.R.C., Souza, C.M.M., Carvalho, C.E.V., Lacerda, L.D. (2004). Geochemistry and Spatial Distribution of Heavy Metals in Continental Shelf Sediments from two Offshore Oil Fields in South-Eastern Brazil. In: Drude de Lacerda, L., Santelli, R.E., Duursma, E.K., Abrão, J.J. (eds) Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical and Subtropical Environments. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07060-4_25
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