GEOG 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Prince William Sound, Valdez, Alaska, 78
8 Mar 2018
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Lecture 14 exxon valdez part 1. What happened: 10. 8 us million gallons of crude oil spilled, princeton exxon, alaska, march 24, 1989, vast amount of oil; and second largest spill in us waters, considered still one devastating human disasters. Slide 5: all of the shore lines were contaminated, key characteristic of the environment: wildlife habitat. Ship started at alaska, leaving prince william sound going to california: pillared the economy of valleys but significant importance to the web of life to first. Nations of alaska: 28 000km2 of ocean, 2100 km of coastline. Slide 11: amoco cadiz: vlcc: very large crude carrier. 68 million gallons of oil dispersed on the coastline: 320 km of coastline contaminated with oil, even reached spain, these ships were both single-hull. Slide 12: many of the ports were covered in oil (e. g. piers, took years in some areas to be removed + some cases still there/not removed entirely, created (cid:494)asphalt(cid:495)
