Oil Sand Patty (IMAGE)

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Oil Sand Patty

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Years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil-soaked "sand patties."

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Catherine Carmichael, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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