Research Catalog

Title

Oil in the sea : inputs, fates, and effects / Steering Committee for the Petroleum in the Marine Environment Update, Board on Ocean Science and Policy, Ocean Sciences Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1985.

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Additional Authors

National Research Council (U.S.). Steering Committee for the Petroleum in the Marine Environment Update.

Description

xviii, 601 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

Follows up and expands on the earlier National Research Council report "Petroleum in the marine environment" published in 1975. Deals with two potentially opposing aspects of man's activities regarding petroleum pollution in the ocean: pollution arising from man's needs for petroleum and a desire to preserve living marine resources.

Alternative Title

Petroleum in the marine environment.

Subject

• Oil pollution of the sea
• Oil spills > Environmental aspects
• Offshore oil well drilling > Environmental aspects
• Petroleum
• Oil spills
• Marine pollution
• Water Pollution
• Petroleum
• petroleum
• marine pollution
• Oil spills
• Marine pollution
• Offshore oil well drilling > Environmental aspects
• Oil pollution of the sea
• Oil spills > Environmental aspects
• MARINE BIOLOGY
• OIL POLLUTION
• WATER POLLUTION
• MARINE CHEMISTRY

Note

• Updates: Petroleum in the marine environment / Workshop on Inputs, Fates, and the Effects of Petroleum in the Marine Environment. Washington : National Academy of Sciences, 1975.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Chemical composition of petroleum hydrocarbon sources -- Inputs -- Chemical and biological methods -- Fates -- Effects.

ISBN

• 0309034795
• 9780309034791

LCCN

85060541

OCLC

• ocm12329378
• 12329378
• SCSB-9142139

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library