Abstract
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) was the first major oil spill to impact the deep sea. This lack of precedent creates challenges for predicting the long-term fate of spilled oil constituents in the deep GoM. Depletion of oil residues in oxygenated seafloor sediments is thought to be relatively rapid, but as impacted horizons are buried by sediments and oxygen is depleted, biodegradation rates are likely to decrease. The sedimentary record of the 1979 Ixtoc 1 oil spill (southern GoM), the second largest marine oil spill to date, affords a window for forecasting the fate of constituents of spilled oil in the northern GoM over multi-decadal time scales.
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