“...aside from the compression and heating of ancient animal remains over the eons...”
This theory makes no sense at all. How many animals/plants would it take to undergo this compression and heating in order to give us petroleum products for decades? And how this byproduct seeps miles into the earth? Appears to be a fable, not science.
There are countless microfossils and their traces within crude formations. Moreover, there are permeable metamorphic amd igneous structures that could contain crude deposits, but they don’t, unless migration has been accomodated by geophysical contact with crude bearing sediments, but these are exceedingly rare.
‘Hydrocarbons Could Form Deep In the Earth From Methane, Not Animal Remains’
Always have and always will.
Yeah, all those geophysicists and geologists who have studied this for hundreds of years have no idea. You have needed only a few minutes of armchair speculation to see right through them and expose them for the frauds they are!
How many animals/plants would it take to undergo this compression and heating in order to give us petroleum products for decades?
Giant (nearly global) forests which existed for hundreds of millions of years, back in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Eras.
And how this byproduct seeps miles into the earth?
"Gee, and how did those fossilized clamshells get to the mountaintops? Are we supposed to believe that they climbed there somehow? That makes no sense at all!" /s
The Observer Effect: The byproduct didn't "seep" into the Earth - it was covered by, inter alia, orogenic processes (e.g., folding), the repeated retreat and advancing of coastlines, alluvial and aolian processes, etc.
I'm just an interested layperson; I'm sure that a real expert could explain it far better.
Regards,
When pumping gas, I like to count "one brontosaurus, two brontosaurus, three brontosaurus...", as I fill the tank.
I would say if every living thing that ever existed were to be compressed and heated it would not account for the small sea of oil found so far. Most biological material decays into gasses before being buried naturally.