Нефтяные агрегаты в поверхностных водах морей Средиземноморского бассейна - (:unkn) unknown (Киев : Наук. думка, 1975)
Oil aggregates in surface waters of the Mediterranean Sea
Investigations of quantative distribution of oil aggregates in the Mediterranean Sea were performed during the 70th cruise of the ship "Akademik A.Kovalevsky" in 1972 in the central and western regions of the sea by means of the larvae-neuston trawl MNT invented by Yu.P. Zaitsev (1970). Aggregates 40 and 50 mm in size and from 3 to 110 g in weight were found in the Mediterranean Sea. These aggregates were in the neuston layer with periphyton - Diatomaceae and Cyanophyceae, Lepas. Idothea use aggregates as a floating substrate. Littoral zones of the Ionian, Tyrrhenian, Ligurian and Alboran seas are characterized of maximum pollution. The mean quantity of oil aggregates in the investegated regions is egual to 6.23; 5.78; 4.33; 3,81 mg/m², respectively. Minimum quantity of oil aggregates was marked for the Black and Aegean seas - 0,10 and 0,25 mg/m² on the average, respectively.