COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Scientists Solve a Deepwater Horizon Mystery
Description: Two weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, marine scientist Monty Graham and colleagues at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab saw a 6-mile-long line of small pieces of mysterious white material floating in the Gulf of Mexico. The material was hard but porous and uniformly embedded with black spheres less than a half-inch in diameter. Read about how they solved the mystery in this news article. [Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Oceanus]
URL: http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/viewArticle.do?id=126629&sectionid=1021
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Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Oceanus
Publish Date: 3/23/2012
Reading Level: Basic
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