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.
Anthropologists study kinship because it is the relationship between people through marriage, family, or other cultural arrangements. The two types of kinship which exist are consanguinial (related by blood) or affinal (related by law/marriage). Through kinship there is a transmission of goods, ideas and behavior. Kinship is defined as a sense of being related to a person or people through descent, sharing or marriage. This provides the base for an examination of different styles of partnership, community and reproduction across the globe.