Ecologists would probably like to refine the definition of toxic mechanisms not as those causing death"but as those diminishing the success of the organism in its environment This is not always the same thing for humans and for marine creatures in their less prestigious existences Indeed this concept leads naturally to the usually accepted definition of"pollution'evolved by the SCOR WOrking Group of the United nations
• Ecologists would probably like to refine the definition of toxic mechanisms not as those “causing death” but as those diminishing the success of the organism in its environment. • This is not always the same thing for humans and for marine creatures in their less prestigious existences. • Indeed this concept leads naturally to the usually accepted definition of “pollution”evolved by the SCOR Working Group of the United Nations
concept of marine pollution The introduction by man, directly or indirectly. of substances or energy into the marine environment (including estuaries)resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources hazards to human health hindrance to marine activeties including fishing, impairment of quality for use of sea water and reduction of amenities evolved by the SCOR Working Group of the United Nations(1969)
concept of marine pollution • The introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment (including estuaries) resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activeties including fishing, impairment of quality for use of sea water and reduction of amenities. —— evolved by the SCOR Working Group of the United Nations (1969)
It will become clear that the agencies giving rise to pollution are extremely diverse and can be found everywhere Three broad categories of material pollution can be distinguished. These are: native or natural, not caused by man; generated by man but not created by him; and increasing pollution caused by mans synthetic activities
• It will become clear that the agencies giving rise to pollution are extremely diverse and can be found everywhere. • Three broad categories of material pollution can be distinguished. These are: native or natural, not caused by man; generated by man but not created by him; and increasing pollution caused by man’s synthetic activities
Categories Example pollutants Natural Volcanoes H,O,sO2, CH4 hydrocarbon, soluble (man not involved) marshes, oil gushers Inorg. and org substances etc Generated Water usage Altered water (exploited by man)farming, forest balance, soil erosion, mining etc slag heaps etc Synthetic Plastics, pesticides, DDT, PCB, 90sr13 (created by man radio-nuclides
Categories Example pollutants Natural (man not involved) Volcanoes, marshes, oil gushers H2O, SO2 , CH4 , hydrocarbon, soluble inorg. and org. substances etc. Generated (exploited by man) Water usage, farming, forestry, mining etc. Altered water balance, soil erosion, slag heaps etc. Synthetic (created by man) Plastics, pesticides, radio-nuclides DDT, PCB, 90Sr, 131I
B. Geochemical mechanisms In relation to the early history of the earth and subsequent mechanisms of change there emerge some generalities about rock composition which are of considerable interest Igneous rocks formed by the solidification of melts are the major component of the earths crust which is now land These rocks are mainly silicic and basaltic types in the radio of 2: 1. The major component minerals of these rocks determine fairly predictably the trace elements that solidified out with them
B. Geochemical mechanisms • In relation to the early history of the earth and subsequent mechanisms of change there emerge some generalities about rock composition which are of considerable interest. • Igneous rocks formed by the solidification of melts are the major component of the earth’s crust which is now land. • These rocks are mainly silicic and basaltic types in the radio of 2:1. The major component minerals of these rocks determine fairly predictably the trace elements that solidified out with them