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Occurrence and sources of natural and anthropogenic lipid tracers in surface soils from arid urban areas of Saudi Arabia

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  • Soil particles contain a variety of natural and anthropogenic organic components, and in urban areas can be considered as local collectors of pollutants. Surface soil samples were taken from ten urban areas in Riyadh during early winter of 2007. They were extracted with dichloromethane-methanol mixture and the extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The major compounds were unresolved complex mixture (UCM), plasticizers, n-alkanes, carbohydrates, n-alkanoic acids, hopanes, n-alkanols, and sterols. Vegetation detritus was the major natural source of organic compounds (24.0 ± 15.7%) in samples from areas with less human activities and included n-alkanes, n-alkanoic acids, n-alkanols, sterols and carbohydrates. Vehicular emission products and discarded plastics were the major anthropogenic sources in the soil particles (53.3 ± 21.3% and 22.7 ± 10.7%, respectively). The anthropogenic tracers were UCM, plasticizers, n-alkanes, hopanes and traces of steranes. Vegetation and human activities control the occurrence and distribution of natural and anthropogenic extractable organic matter in this arid urban area.
  • Keywords: Petroleum residues, Biomarkers, Soils, Lipids, Plasticizers
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  • Rushdi, A. I., Al-Mutlaq, K. F., El-Mubarak, A. H., Al-Saleh, M. A., El-Otaibi, M. T., Ibrahim, S. M. M., & Simoneit, B. R. (2016). Occurrence and sources of natural and anthropogenic lipid tracers in surface soils from arid urban areas of Saudi Arabia. Environmental Pollution, 208(B), 696-703. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2015.10.049
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  • Support for this research was provided by the Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program (DSFP) of King Saud University.
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