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Appendix C: National Seepage of Crude Oil into the Marine Enviornment
Pages 191-192

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... Estimating the amount of natural seepage of crude oil into the marine environment involves broad extrapolations from minimal data. The National Research Council (1975,1985)
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... Nevertheless, recent and improved data from the northern Gulf of Mexico and from offshore southern California indicate that oil seepage rates were likely underestimated in 1985 (National Research Council, 1985~. Based on the above information and using the methods of Kvenvolden and Harbaugh (1983)
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