TY - JOUR
T1 - Microlitter pollution in coastal sediments of the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy
T2 - microplastics and fly-ash occurrence and distribution
AU - Piazzolla, Daniele
AU - Cafaro, Valentina
AU - de Lucia, Giuseppe Andrea
AU - Mancini, Emanuele
AU - Scanu, Sergio
AU - Bonamano, Simone
AU - Piermattei, Viviana
AU - Vianello, Alvise
AU - Della Ventura, Giancarlo
AU - Marcelli, Marco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/8/31
Y1 - 2020/8/31
N2 - Marine litter is included in the eleven descriptors of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) necessary for the assessment of the marine environmental status. In this work, we studied the abundance and typology of microparticles extracted from coastal sediments in the northern Latium area, Tyrrhenian sea, Italy. Particles having different shapes (fragments, microspheres, and filaments), size and color were recognized to belong to two typologies, i.e. microplastics (MPs) and aluminum silicate microspheres (ASMs) interpreted as fly-ash produced by fossil fuel combustion. MPs abundances were comparable with data from the literature related to the same depositional contexts in the Mediterranean Sea and elsewhere, while ASMs contributed 32% to the total average microlitter abundance in this coastal area. MPs and ASMs distribution could reflect the contributions of the land-based sources and the hydrodynamic features of the study area.
AB - Marine litter is included in the eleven descriptors of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) necessary for the assessment of the marine environmental status. In this work, we studied the abundance and typology of microparticles extracted from coastal sediments in the northern Latium area, Tyrrhenian sea, Italy. Particles having different shapes (fragments, microspheres, and filaments), size and color were recognized to belong to two typologies, i.e. microplastics (MPs) and aluminum silicate microspheres (ASMs) interpreted as fly-ash produced by fossil fuel combustion. MPs abundances were comparable with data from the literature related to the same depositional contexts in the Mediterranean Sea and elsewhere, while ASMs contributed 32% to the total average microlitter abundance in this coastal area. MPs and ASMs distribution could reflect the contributions of the land-based sources and the hydrodynamic features of the study area.
KW - Aluminum silicate microspheres
KW - Fly ash
KW - Marine litter
KW - Microplastics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106819
DO - 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106819
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85084371042
SN - 0272-7714
VL - 241
JO - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
JF - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
M1 - 106819
ER -