Ocean Basins As Environmental Sinks

Abstract

Any man-induced modification of natural processes can be considered as 'pollu­tion'. It often alters the quality of the environment of interferes with some beneficial resources. There are two forms of modification: one is that pollution may be the result of the addition of manmade materials, particularly chemicals alien to the natural world; the other modification may be an induced increase above the normal level of concentration of naturally occurring substances.