[clearsight]

Oh you accept that it is an on going process??????
Which process the buried animal/forest one, or the deep high pressure, heat, mineral combination one down at the mantle ??? Oh by the way who is supplying all the dead rotting material today if oil and gas are forming from buried animal/debris ?? Don't animals and plant life decompose more quickly than in 1000 years ???? Seems like we would have run out of that supply by now except that maybe there was another Noah's flood or meteor impact that we missed somewhere along the way that cause more debris to be buried ??????

[orionblamblam]

All stages in the formation of oil/coal are ongoing. This is hardly surprising. It not like sedimentation, vulcanism, decay and the like suddenly stopped a million years ago...

> Don't animals and plant life decompose more quickly than in 1000 years ????

Not always. Look up "bog people."