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Image : Natural Petroleum Seeps Release Equivalent of 8-80 Exxon Valdez Oil Spills

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This illustration shows the route traveled by oil leaving the subseafloor reservoir as it travels through the water column to the surface, and ultimately falls back to the seafloor. The oil remaining after weathering falls in a plume shape onto the seafloor where it remains in the sediment. (Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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