They tell me most of the crude is from plankton that dies and dropped to the ocean floor. I saw some mathematician try to calculate if all the plankton and small sea life that ever lived could be transformed COMPLETLEY into crude it does not account for the vast quantities found in the earth’s crust.
This supports my point that this has been a game of storytelling. The big green ogre of Oz -- rather like the puffer fish and feather displaying pheasant -- seems so pervasive, informed and perceptive. But behind the Wizard's curtain....
...is that which exits cattle along with that dreaded methane....
That’s an interesting thought. To make a 6 foot layer of oil-bearing shale, how many hundreds of feet of plankton would need to be compressed? When you think of it that way, you realize there has to be something else involved. We are practically floating on hydrocarbons.
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
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
Every hydrocarbons system in every basin on this planet has the telltale markers for biological origins. Every year trillons of tonnes of biological matter sinks into the deeps of the ocean’s. In the Gulf of Mexico alone it’s 1 to 3 mm a year every year. The Gulf of Mexico is a Jurassic back arc basin that’s at least 200,000,000 years old. That’s well over 200 thousand meters of sedimentation in that time frame. The vast weight of that amounts of sediment causes compaction and subsidence this is why you have 45,000 plus feet of sediments above the basaltic basement crust in the Gulf. The oils in the Gulf are primarily miocene in age this is confirmed with isotopic analysis, and geochemical signatures every one of which shows biological.carbon origins EVERY SINGLE ONE. I would love to see a peer reviewed source of a proven hydrocarbons system with no biomarkers as a PhD petroleum geologist and geochemical scientist with 20+ years in the industry I’d love to see it as never in any of the tens of thousands of samples I have processed not a single one didn’t have the signatures for biosphere carbons, hydrogen or oxygen isotopes all three are present in hydrocarbon resources in the precise ratios that indicate not only biological origins but marine life.