Ecological study of the Amoco Ecological study of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill : report of the NOAA-CNEXO Joint Scientific Commission . ecologicalstudy00noaa Year: 1982 THE AMOCO CADIZ OIL SPILL DISTRIBUTION AND EVOLUTION OF OIL POLLUTION IN MARINE SEDIMENTS by Michel Marchand, Guy Bodennec, Jean-Claude Caprais, and Patricia Pignet Centre Océanologique de Bretagne - CNEXO BP 337, 29273 BREST CEDEX, France INTRODUCTION In March 1978, the supertanker AMOCO CADIZ was stranded on shallow rocks off Portsall (north Brittany), km from the coast. Two hundred twenty-three - thousand tons of a mixtur
Ecological study of the Amoco Ecological study of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill : report of the NOAA-CNEXO Joint Scientific Commission . ecologicalstudy00noaa Year: 1982 THE AMOCO CADIZ OIL SPILL DISTRIBUTION AND EVOLUTION OF OIL POLLUTION IN MARINE SEDIMENTS by Michel Marchand, Guy Bodennec, Jean-Claude Caprais, and Patricia Pignet Centre Océanologique de Bretagne - CNEXO BP 337, 29273 BREST CEDEX, France INTRODUCTION In March 1978, the supertanker AMOCO CADIZ was stranded on shallow rocks off Portsall (north Brittany), km from the coast. Two hundred twenty-three - thousand tons of a mixture of Arabian light crude oil (100,000 t) and Iranian light crude oil (123,000 t) flowed into the sea without interruption from 17 March to 30 March. The maximum extent of the oil slicks is presented in Figure 1. At this point, about 360 km of coastline were polluted by the oil. The analyses of oil in seawater, measured by UV fluorescence spec- troscopy (Marchand and Caprais, 1981), revealed that the oil spill â¢Â°w MP. AMOCO CADIZ CARTE 0 EXTENSION MAXIMALE EN MER OES NAPPES 0 HYDROCARBURE? OU 17 MARS AU 26 AVRIL 1978 C J&e* t?S â r>to''J.' * '' Jr -i Vj- r \j: <.<'iiià .*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%' r*-M^*l «â¢-N FIGURE 1. Maximum extent of oil slicks on the sea surface, 17 March to 26 April 1978. 143
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