caa a22 4500 467905207 CHVBK 20180406152832.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9102-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9102-8 Chemical Compositions and Sources of Organic Matter in Fine Particles of Soils and Sands from the Vicinity of Kuwait City [Elektronische Daten] [Ahmed Rushdi, Sheikha Al-Zarban, Bernd Simoneit] Fine particles in the atmosphere from soil and sand resuspension contain a variety of organic compounds from natural biogenic and anthropogenic matter. Soil and sand samples from various sites near Kuwait city were collected, sieved to retain the fine particles, and extracted with a mixture of dichloromethane and methanol. The extracts were derivatized and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in order to characterize the chemical compositions and sources of the organic components. The major inputs of organic compounds were from both natural biogenic and anthropogenic sources in these samples. Vegetation was the major natural source of organic compounds and included n-alkanols, n-alkanoic acids, n-alkanes, sterols and triterpenoids. Saccharides had high concentrations (31-43%) in the sand dune and seafront samples, indicating sources from decomposed vegation materials and/or the presence of viable microbiota such as bacteria and fungi. Vehicular emission products, leakage of lubricating oils, discarded plastics and emissions from cooking operations were the major anthropogenic inputs in the samples from the urban areas. This input was mainly UCM, n-alkanes, hopanes, plasticizers and cholesterol, respectively. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 hopanes nationallicence lipids nationallicence plasticizers nationallicence saccharides nationallicence sterols nationallicence UCM nationallicence Rushdi Ahmed Environmental and Petroleum Geochemistry Group, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. aut Al-Zarban Sheikha Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait aut Simoneit Bernd Environmental and Petroleum Geochemistry Group, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A. aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 120/1-3(2006-09-01), 537-557 0167-6369 120:1-3<537 2006 120 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9102-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9102-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rushdi Ahmed Environmental and Petroleum Geochemistry Group, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Al-Zarban Sheikha Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Simoneit Bernd Environmental and Petroleum Geochemistry Group, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 120/1-3(2006-09-01), 537-557 0167-6369 120:1-3<537 2006 120 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer