Result &Disccusion

Because petroleum is a mixture of hundreds of different hydrocarbon compounds, the composition of petroleum products released into the environment is variable. [6] Also the origin of hydrocarbons in sediments are biogenic, bio-synthesized by living organisms and anthropogenic due to oil pollution

the range of heavy of heavy metal concentration in sediments at depth 0-15 cm shown in table below, , the result reflects the average con. was a reletive low in Khor Abdulla in 2011.

Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in the Sediments of Iraqi Coastlines

( Mohanad Hamid Al-Jaberi)

Study of Oil Pollution Levels in Sediment of the Umm- Qasr and khor AlZubair ports. (Rita Salim Adam)

From the picture & table above , we can obseve Um Qasr port is highly impacted by pollutants

because of the several sources avalabilities.

(Some geotechnical soil properties of western bank of Khor Al-Zubair channel coast at Khor Al-Zubair Port location, southern Basrah, Iraq W.R. Muttashar)

There are two main strata making up the coast bank of the navigational channel of Khor Al-Zubair; the first is Marly Silty Clay which is 18m thick, changes from very soft-m.stiff to stiff-v.stiff and belongs to the Al-Hammar deposits. The second layer is Silty Sand soil which looms interacting with Silty clay layers in the near and onshore Boreholes and belongs to the Dibdiba formation, it also has more than 50 N-values at BOD depths in some Boreholes

(Some geotechnical soil properties of western bank of Khor Al-Zubair channel coast at Khor Al-Zubair Port location, southern Basrah, Iraq W.R. Muttashar)

Sedimentological and paleontological study of the tidal flat recent sediments of Khor Al-Zubair and Khor Abdullah, Northwest Arabian Gulf B.M. Issa, B.N. Albadran and M.F. Al-Shahwan