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To: crusty old prospector

Methane is a hydrocarbon, as is crude oil. Please explain how the former came to exist on the surface of Titan.


63 posted on 11/16/2016 7:51:54 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

I am not an astrophysicist but I am confident as to how the hydrocarbons were generated from this planet. If you are claiming that oil was formed in the mantle (laughable, by the way), please explain why there are no oil fields found below depths of 12,000’, maybe as deep as 18,000’ in cooler basins like South Louisiana? Zip, zilch, notta. The answer is that oil is not stable at those depths. It breaks down into lighter components like methane. So how can it come from the depths of the earth?


65 posted on 11/16/2016 8:07:51 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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