Estudo geoquímico e microfaunístico da região circunjacente ao emissário submarino de esgoto das Cigarras, São Sebastião, SP / Geochemistry and microfaunistic study of the area around the submarine outfall of Cigarras, São Sebastião, SP

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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The influence of submarine outfall of domestic sewage on the benthic foraminifera and sediments quality at Cigarras, São Sebastião, SP, is evaluated in this dissertation. Twenty water and bottom sediment samples were collected around the outfall in September 2006 (ten samples) and 2007 (ten samples). Another two samples were collected in the São Sebastião Channel far from the domestic sewage disposal as controls. For each water sample physicochemical analyses were carried out. In the sediments, grain size, geochemistry and foraminifera composition were analyzed. The taxonomy, morphology, taphonomy and statistics of live and dead foraminifera were analyzed separately. Water sample water column analyses showed that only dissolved oxygen was below CONAMA reference levels at the majority of sites sampled in 2006. The area is characterized by sandmud sediments, with weak to moderate bottom circulation. Samples with the highest mud percentages also have the highest concentrations of organic carbon, sulphur and nitrogen. HPA values are low, less than 5 g Kg-1 in most samples. There are significant compositional and morphological differences between thanatocenoses and biocenoses near the outfall. The opportunistic species Ammonia tepida, Pararotalia cananeiaensis and Cribroelphidium spp. dominate the death assemblages. Although A. tepida is the dominant species in the living assemblages, indicators of organic matterial, such as Brizalina striatula e Bolivina ssp. are abundant. The thanatocenoses are represented by partially fragmented medium and small tests, with few tests pyritized, limonitized or filled with iron monossulfate. Tests in the biocenoses are medium to small, without any alteration of color. The controls are made up mainly by Pararotalia cananeiaensis among the dead organism, and by Ammonia tepida among the living. Foraminifera at these control sites are more abundant, richer and more diverse than near the outfall. This is interpreted as due to their distance from the influence of the sewage disposal around the outfall diffusers. The results of this study suggest that thanatocenoses cannot be used in environment studies, because they do not faithfully represent the local living assemblage. The analyses of grain size-geochemistry and the biocenoses show that the area is undergoing organic enrichment from domestic sewage outfall, with negative effects on the abundance and diversity of living benthic foraminiferal assemblages.

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submarine outfall canal de são sebastião cigarras beach domestic sewage emissário submarino esgoto doméstico foraminifera foraminíferos hidrocarbonetos policíclicos aromáticos polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons praia das cigarras são sebastião channel

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