Field and laboratory investigation of tarmat deposits found on Ras Rakan Island and northern beaches of Qatar.
Arekhi M, Terry LG, John GF, Al-Khayat JA, Castillo AB, Vethamony P, Clement TP.
Arekhi M, et al.
Sci Total Environ. 2020 Sep 15;735:139516. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139516. Epub 2020 May 18.
Sci Total Environ. 2020.
PMID: 32492568
Beaches of Ras Rakan Island, located off the northern tip of Qatar, are extensively contaminated by highly weathered tarmat deposits. ...We found the hopane fingerprints of these tarmat samples were identical to the fingerprints of the samples collected from Ras Rakan …
Beaches of Ras Rakan Island, located off the northern tip of Qatar, are extensively contaminated by highly weathered tarmat deposits. …