Chapter 20
Oil Hydrocarbons in Bottom Sediments
of Sevastopol Bay (SW Crimean Peninsula,
Black Sea): Spatial and Temporal Trends
Tatyana S. Osadchaya
Abstract Long-term observations for oil pollution of bottom sediments of Sevastopol Bay allowed to create the unique anthropogenic history of the region. Large
volume of accumulated data allows to characterize dynamics of changes in the
pollution status of the Bay at various temporal and spatial scales and to reveal the
most vulnerable areas as a consequence of ever-growing economic development.
The present study offers the results of comparative analysis of physical-chemical
characteristics and distribution patterns of oil hydrocarbons in bottom sediments
upper layer (0–5 sm) of the Sevastopol Bay on the data of environmental surveys of
2000 and 2009.
20.1 Introduction
The range of technogenic impacts to coastal water areas is extremely wide and
diverse, but taking into account that modern life without the hydrocarbon compounds is almost impossible, this kind of pollution in order of importance in the
formation of a common ecological quality of marine environment, has long considered in a par with natural geochemical, physical and biological processes
(Zaitsev 2006; Mee and Topping 1999; Bologa 2001a; Mironov et al. 2003;
Strategic. . .2006). In the case of such a large maritime centre like the city of
Sevastopol, whose coastal waters since the founding of the city provide primarily
the port services (as for the civil-industrial, and the military-naval purposes), the
presence and a wide spread of oil and oil products in marine environment is quite
explainable. An active maritime traffic, numerous port facilities and moorings, ship
repair and shipbuilding enterprises are only listed stationary sources of the hydrocarbon pollution. Also, there are numerous terrestrial activities that are not always
directly attribute (and are not always taken into account) to oil pollution such as an
expansion of residential and recreational construction, developing network of the
T.S. Osadchaya (*)
The A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Researches (IMBR), Sevastopol, Russia
e-mail: ots51@mail.ru
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
C.W. Finkl, C. Makowski (eds.), Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences, Coastal
Research Library 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_20
357
Oil Hydrocarbons in Bottom Sediments
of Sevastopol Bay (SW Crimean Peninsula,
Black Sea): Spatial and Temporal Trends
Tatyana S. Osadchaya
Abstract Long-term observations for oil pollution of bottom sediments of Sevastopol Bay allowed to create the unique anthropogenic history of the region. Large
volume of accumulated data allows to characterize dynamics of changes in the
pollution status of the Bay at various temporal and spatial scales and to reveal the
most vulnerable areas as a consequence of ever-growing economic development.
The present study offers the results of comparative analysis of physical-chemical
characteristics and distribution patterns of oil hydrocarbons in bottom sediments
upper layer (0–5 sm) of the Sevastopol Bay on the data of environmental surveys of
2000 and 2009.
20.1 Introduction
The range of technogenic impacts to coastal water areas is extremely wide and
diverse, but taking into account that modern life without the hydrocarbon compounds is almost impossible, this kind of pollution in order of importance in the
formation of a common ecological quality of marine environment, has long considered in a par with natural geochemical, physical and biological processes
(Zaitsev 2006; Mee and Topping 1999; Bologa 2001a; Mironov et al. 2003;
Strategic. . .2006). In the case of such a large maritime centre like the city of
Sevastopol, whose coastal waters since the founding of the city provide primarily
the port services (as for the civil-industrial, and the military-naval purposes), the
presence and a wide spread of oil and oil products in marine environment is quite
explainable. An active maritime traffic, numerous port facilities and moorings, ship
repair and shipbuilding enterprises are only listed stationary sources of the hydrocarbon pollution. Also, there are numerous terrestrial activities that are not always
directly attribute (and are not always taken into account) to oil pollution such as an
expansion of residential and recreational construction, developing network of the
T.S. Osadchaya (*)
The A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Researches (IMBR), Sevastopol, Russia
e-mail: ots51@mail.ru
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
C.W. Finkl, C. Makowski (eds.), Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences, Coastal
Research Library 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_20
357