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Illustration of a subsea oil seep.

Illustration of a subsea oil seep.
Illustration of a subsea oil seep.
Illustration of a subsea oil seep.
Illustration of a subsea oil seep.
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Cook, John E.
Illustration of a subsea oil seep.
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06/01/2009
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Image of The Day caption:
About one-half of the oil in the ocean comes from natural oil seeps. Marine chemist and Coastal Ocean Institute Director Chris Reddy studies oil that is naturally seeping into the oceans in order to better understand accidental oil spills. This illustration shows the route traveled by oil leaving the subseafloor reservoir as it travels through the water column to the surface and ultimately sinks and falls out in a plume shape onto the seafloor where it remains in the sediment.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 47, No. 3, Pg. 28:
An oily trail through the sea.
Oil leaving the subseafloor reservoir travels through the water column to the surface and ultimately sinks and falls out in a plume shape into seafloor sediments.
Illustration by Jack Cook
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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