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‘Dirty Blizzard’ Sent 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Pollution to Seafloor

By Kevin Krajick/Kyu Lee | The Earth Institute-Columbia University on Jun 1, 2016   At Sea, Featured, National  

‘Dirty Blizzard’ Sent 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Pollution to Seafloor

In a new study, they also detailed how remnants of the oil, black carbon from burning oil slicks and contaminants from drilling mud combined with microscopic algae and other marine debris to descend in a “dirty blizzard” to the seafloor. The work, published May 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirms […]

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