... and Corexit compounds. A model calculation of potential turnover rates of organic carbon within the TEP pool suggests extended residence times of TEP in oil-contaminated waters, making them prone to serve as the sticky matrix for oily aggregates known as marine oil snow. Enzymatic hydrolysis of single...

... into marine snow and deposited on the seafloor ( Passow et al., 2012 ; Daly et al., 2016 ). This marine oil snow sedimentation and flocculent accumulation (MOSSFA) event was an unexpected fate for a large amount of the spilled oil: the estimates that 5–10% or even 15% of the released oil was transported...