Oil pollution along Gujarat Coast and its possible source

Abstract

The incidence of pollution by oil derivatives along the Indian coastline, in the form of tar-ball deposition on beaches of Gujarat (India) is dealt with. The possible origin of the tar-balls has been traced to crude and other heavy fractions of petroleum, by using thin layer chromatography (TLC) technique. A comparison has been made of different oil derivatives which led to the deduction that the tar-ball material comes from crude-oil