oil slick


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a thin film of oil floating on top of water (especially crude oil spilled from a ship)

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An initial assessment showed that traces of thick, black oily substance had settled on seaweed and on the shore in these areas, but there were no signs of oil slick or larger portions of oil as it was low tide when the PDRMMC visited Silliman Beach.
But we are not satisfied with its performance and have asked for boom barriers to contain the oil slick affecting the coast,' he said.
Earlier, on October 26, an oil slick near Charna Island was spotted by locals when the high sea tides left black "globs" behind on the beach.
However, by Thursday morning, the oil slick beached on Mubarak Village and quickly spread up to Sandspit Beach by the afternoon.
Reports pouring in suggested some areas of Gadani, Abbas Goth, Abdul Rehman Goth and Juma Village which are located in the vicinity have been affected by the oil slick.
"We thought it might have been an oil slick, so we went to have a look.
Early researchers adopted various numerical methods to simulate the movement of an oil slick based on the advection-diffusion equation.
A NAZI bombing raid 75 years ago has caused an oil slick on a British beach.
Robert is more slippery than an eel in an oil slick and as for her ex, Donny, the man is up to his neck in shady shenanigans.
The Presidency of Meteorology and Environment Protection has announced that the cleaning works at one of Jeddah's coastal sites have been completed, after the area was seriously affected by a suspected oil slick. Abdulaziz Al-Jasser, general president of the environment body, said the affected area, which was about a length of 1,500 meters, is now free of any oil slick, adding that the location would be returned to the jurisdiction of relevant authorities soon.
Nawaf Salam, the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations after the Adoption of the "Oil Slick on Lebanese Shores" Resolution by the General Assembly.
Muscat: Though the source of oil slick in the Muscat governorate is still not known, surveys have been carried out by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs (MECA) and coastguard officials, as part of their investigations to determine its origin, a senior MECA official told the Times of Oman on Sunday.
Meanwhile, officials were investigating an oil slick not far from the area where the last underwater sounds were detected, said Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency co-ordinating the search off Australia's west coast.