Natural Petroleum Seeps Release Equivalent of 8 - 80 Exxon Valdez Oil Spills
Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionA new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California.