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Has the Marine Environment Got the ‘Hump’?
Emma L. Smith, Peter Donkin and Steven J. Rowland
	Petroleum and Organic Geochemistry Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, U.K.
Presented at: SET for Britain: Young Scientists Meeting, The House of Commons, London, U.K., 18^th March 2002.
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‘Humps’ are unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons (UCMs)
They are seen as humps in GC chromatograms i.e. they are unresolvable in analytical terms
They accumulate in the marine environment when oil is weathered
The impact of these compounds on the marine environment has been ignored
Preliminary research has shown that these compounds elicit a toxic effect
The accumulation of these compounds in the marine environment may pose a threat to marine organisms

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