* British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
† Torry Research Station, 135 Abbey Road, Aberdeen AB9 8DG, Scotland, UK
Abstract:
By comparing the hydrocarbons of benthic invertebrates from two Antarctic sites, Clarke & Law (1981) concluded that for one of their locations the source was local. In doing so, they questioned our suggestion that a world-wide dissemination of pyrolysis products was partly responsible (Platt & Mackie, 1979). However, we argue here that in fact their results confirm our contention. We also present some new data on the aromatic hydrocarbons of a South Georgia starfish.