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Title: Persistence of spilled oil along the Beaufort Sea coast

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6310359

The research project for which this is the final report was initiated in 1977 with the following three major objectives: Assess the retention potential for spilled oil within the coastal environments of Alaska's Beaufort Sea; Characterize the morphology and sediments of the Beaufort coast; Determine, as precisely as possible, the annual longshore sediment transport rate.

Research Organization:
National Ocean Service, Anchorage, AK (USA). Ocean Assessments Div.
OSTI ID:
6310359
Report Number(s):
PB-87-192001/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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