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oil seep

ENVO:00002063 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

The result of the release of natural hydrocarbons to the surface of the earth, including beneath the sea, by natural geological processes. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat

Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Oil seeps 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	7	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

• marine water body ENVO:00001999
• liquid astronomical body part ENVO:01001477

Also called

• Oil seeps — GOLD

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

1. GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5

   Grounded to ENVO:00002063 'oil seep' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the ENVO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Oil seeps (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.8b73c4518f)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.