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SUBMITTER: Brandon JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726453 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brandon Jennifer A JA Jones William W Ohman Mark D MD
Science advances 20190904 9
We analyzed coastal sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin, California, for historical changes in microplastic deposition using a box core that spanned 1834-2009. The sediment was visually sorted for plastic, and a subset was confirmed as plastic polymers via FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) spectroscopy. After correcting for contamination introduced during sample processing, we found an exponential increase in plastic deposition from 1945 to 2009 with a doubling time of 15 years. This increase c ...[more]