title: Pollutants in Bottom Sediments in the Balaklava Bay (the Black Sea)
abstract: Purpose. The purpose of the paper consists in studying the pollution level, and the character of spatial distribution of microelements and trace metals, the chlorophorm-extractable substances and petroleum hydrocarbons and in evaluating the features of their accumulation in the upper layer of bottom sediments in the Balaklava Bay depending on the natural and anthropogenic sources of pollutants. Methods and Results. The samples were taken from the bottom sediments upper layer (0-5 cm) in the Bala
journal: Physical Oceanography