‘Dirty Blizzard’ Sent 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Pollution to Seafloor
![Dark clouds of smoke and fire emerge as oil burns during a controlled fire in the Gulf of Mexico, 6 May 2010. A new study found black carbon left from the burns joined a “dirty blizzard” of contaminants that eventually settled on the seafloor. Photo: U.S. Navy ‘Dirty Blizzard’ Sent 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Pollution to Seafloor](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image01-06-2016-18.10.32.jpg)
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 […]