Oil spill science and technology [electronic resource] : prevention, response, and clean up / edited by Mervin Fingas.

The National Academy of Sciences estimate that 1.7 to 8.8 million tons of oil are released into world's water every year, of which more than 70% is directly related to human activities. The effects of these spills are all too apparent: dead wildlife, oil covered marshlands and contaminated wate...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Knovel)
Other Authors:	Fingas, Mervin F.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Burlington, MA : Gulf Professional Pub./Elsevier, ©2011.
Subjects:	Oil spills > Prevention. Oil spills > Cleanup. Oil spills > Management.