The heat release is concentrated in a narrow area along a major warm current, including the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream, strengthened as a western boundary current under the effect of the earth's rotation.
A cursory look at a map of the Gulf Stream shows that the oil is not just going to cover the beaches in the Gulf, it will spread to the Atlantic coasts up through North Carolina then on to the North Sea and Iceland.
However, because the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift Current moderate the climate, Finland contains half of the world's arable land north of 60° north latitude.
And past the damage to the beaches, sea life and water supplies, the Gulf stream has a very distinct chemistry, composition(marine organisms), density, temperature.
The Gulf Stream, indicated by the orange curve, is the source of warm and high salinity seawater that flows northeastward to the vicinity of the Greenland Sea.
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