I wanna know from these irons how life forms got 10,000 feet under the earth’s surface to become fossils, turned into oil for man to drill and extract. /sarc
People don’t comprehend the span of geologic time. With a 1 mm sedimentation rate over 200 million years such as the Gulf of Mexico you accumulate hundreds of km worth of sediments above the igneous basement. The steady compaction and gravity induced isostatic subsidence forms the accommodation space for that sediment package. This is freshmen level geology. No where on earth has a single total hydrocarbons system been tested and not had the geochemical signatures of organic carbon. Not a single one anywhere. The Russians at one point had a oil they found in granitic rocks. Which was billed as abiotic with the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening to science that oil was found to have multiple organic geochemical signatures which were traced to a shale source rock under that igneous rocks which was an intrusion not basement rocks as it was thought at the time. 3D seismic confirmed the deeper shale source rock. Anyone with experience and expertise in the industry can show where and how hydrocarbons all have a organic origin. Again this is freshmen geology 1301 level science.