Contaminants in continental shelf sediments, a way to reconstruct a source to sink pathway (Naples Bay, Italy)

The area off-shore the alluvial Sarno plain (Naples Bay, Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea) is bounded by the Vesuvius volcano in the northern part and by the carbonates relief of the Sorrento Peninsula in the southern part, and it is affected by metals contamination due the outflow of industrial vast. Individuation of several marine sector with different geochemical associations permitted the reconstruction of source to sink contaminants pathway on the continental shelf.