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Why oil from the Exxon Valdez lingers

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Rocky beaches may have locked oil away in airtight pores.

Oil dumped in the Gulf of Alaska by the Exxon Valdez remains beneath the beaches of the area more than 20 years on because a porous layer of rock helps to lock the oil away from the air, researchers think.

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  1. Naomi Lubick
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Lubick, N. Why oil from the Exxon Valdez lingers. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.16

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