Abstract
To determine carefully the effects on the marine and estuarine benthos of Number 2 fuel oil spilled by the barge FLORIDA off West Falmouth, Massachusetts, we sampled for many months along an onshore-offshore gradient of pollution, and less intensively at unoiled sites. Analyses of hydrocarbons established that pollution was greatest and most persistent in the intertidal and subtidal zones of Wild Harbor River, less severe in degree and duration at stations farthest from shore....
Recommended Citation
Sanders, Howard L., J. F. Grassle, George R. Hampson, Linda S. Morse, Susan Garner-Price, and Carol C. Jones. 1980. "Anatomy of an oil spill: Long-term effects from the grounding of the barge Florida off West Falmouth, Massachusetts." Journal of Marine Research 38, (2). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal_of_marine_research/1510