Enormous Oil Seepage in the
Geology.com
June
20, 2007 |
Oil
enters the marine environment from human activity and natural seeps. A National
Academy of Science study recently estimated that about 47
percent (We
strongly suspect that the actual percentage of natural seepage is much higher
as the floor of the ocean has not been mapped the world-wide, and the part that
has been mapped has by enlarge only done in a cursorary manner) of the oil entering the marine
environment is a result of natural seepage from subsurface
reservoirs. The