Oil slick from the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea, September 2009. An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.The term is usually applied to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land.il slick from the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea, September 2009. An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.
kin - group of people related by blood or marriage. clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe. social group - people sharing some social relation. mishpachah, mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); she invited the whole mishpocha.
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox states that the study of kinship is the study of what man does with these basic facts of life â mating, gestation, parenthood, socialization, siblingship etc. Human society is unique, he argues, in that we are working with the same raw material as exists in ...