Marine snow formation in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Passow, U ^a   Ziervogel, K ^b   Asper, V ^c   Diercks, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregates; Deepwater Horizon; flocs; Gulf of Mexico; marine snow; mucus; oil spill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864404437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/035301     Document Type: Article

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