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Article: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: Fate and Effects in Alaskan Waters.
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- Wilson Bulletin
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- September 1, 1997
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This volume contains some of the papers presented at the Third Symposium on Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment held in Atlanta, Georgia on 26-28 April 1993. Most of the research reported in this volume was supported by the Exxon Company, USA, during the period 1989-1991, following the grounding of the T/V Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on 24 March 1989. The accident resulted in the release of an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil from Alaska's North Slope into the sound; some of this oil was -and still is - deposited on beaches as far as 900 km to the southwest.
One of the troths of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (hereafter, Evos) is that ...