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Describes how oil spills occur, how they affect the environment, and how they can be cleaned up and prevented. ... Read more

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Discusses the history and risks of drilling for oil underwater, describes the damage to marine life caused by oil spills, and lists ways to prevent future spills. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 829 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Oil spills, cleaner cleaners and old railroad ties.(Ask E)(Letter to the Editor)
Author: Abbi Leman
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: 14Issue: 5Page: 64(1)

Article Type: Letter to the Editor

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This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 765 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The invisible stain.(Open Space)(environmental damage from the Exxon Valdez oil spill continues in Prince William Sound)
Author: Charles Wohlforth
Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Volume: 26Issue: 1Page: 48(1)

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The aim of this study was to characterize samples of petroleum spills derived from the oily free-phase zone located in the subsurface of a petroleum refinery and to reveal the contained distinct petroleum fractions, thus enabling the identification of the spill origin. The samples were collected from different monitoring wells and were analyzed using gel permeation chromatography (GPC) combined with a UV-diode array detector. The PARAFAC algorithm was employed for the analysis of the 3-D experimental data matrix, which contained the areas under the chromatographic trace, measured for distinct time slices over the 270-440nm UV range for the whole sample population. The application of the PARAFAC method revealed two significant elution profiles possessing characteristic UV signals, which were attributed to the gasoline and diesel fractions, respectively. A third elution profile was also identified which corresponded to biodegraded heavy fractions. The relative contribution of these compositional features to the oil spill samples was also identified. The presented method can be employed as a rapid and reliable fingerprinting tool in environmental studies, where petroleum pollutants of unknown composition are expected. ... Read more