Where Did All the Oil Go? | #Geology #GeologyPage Due to the environmental disasters unprecedented scope, assessing the damage caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been a challenge. One unsolved puzzle is the location of 2 million barrels of submerged oil thought to be trapped in the deep ocean. UC Santa Barbaras David Valentine and colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) and UC Irvine have been able to describe the path the oil followed to create a footprint on the deep ocean floor. The findings appear today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more : geologypage/2014/10/where-did-all-oil-go.html Geology Page geologypage
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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