Gaseous and volatile hydrocarbon inputs from a subsurface oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

This paper is the result of a collaborative study. The authors express their gratitude to the technical staff of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and to the officers and men of the research vessel CSS H u d s o n . We thank Mr. R. T. Rantala of the Marine Ecology Laboratory, who carried out the Hg and organic carbon matter analyses in the laboratory of one of the authors (D.H.L.), and Dr. P. Yeats and Dr. D. Buckley for their critical reviews of this manuscript. We especially thank Dr. J. M. Bewers for his many thoughtful discussions during the course of this work.