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Harbours, because of the associated shipping activities, are often sites of serious marine pollution. As a result of the work of international (e.g., the International Maritime Organization and the United Nations Environment Program) and national agencies, there have been significant improvements recently in the operations and environments of many harbours, but historical activities have often left a pollution impact in the sediments. Guam (13� 28 0 N, 144� 45 0 E) has been the major shipping centre in Micronesia for about 400 years, but there have been few studies of the impacts on the coastal environment of such activities. This paper reports the first major study of trace metals in sediments of four |
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