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Title: Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Date Created and/or Issued: 1970-01-26T08:00:00Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - Pollution
Rights Information: copyrighted
UPI retains the copyright on all photographs. Permission to use photographs must be obtained from United Press International.
Description: Workmen clean up shoreline buried under blanket of muck from giant oil slick which covered the Santa Barbara coastline 2/69. the "Great Oil Spill" which resulted from a leaking offshore drilling rig left a sheet of glob on the beaches, blackened the rocks, stuck to the hulls of 1,000 boats in the harbor and gave off a nauseating stench. Oil remains here as a sticky political issue.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_pollution/29
Subject: Pollution
Environmental Health and Protection
Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment
Source: UPI – Pollution

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