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To: onedoug
Why then is it only found incorporated in sediments? There are some types of metamorphic and igneous rocks porous enough for this, yet it´s not observed.

Why then are hydrocarbons observed on other planets? How did they come to be?

39 posted on 11/19/2010 2:22:24 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: TChris

Hydrocarbons, yes. Not crude oil however.


80 posted on 11/19/2010 6:14:28 PM PST by onedoug
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Why then are hydrocarbons observed on other planets? How did they come to be?

What about our water? No matter how much we drink, I don't see the ocean level going down.

As far as igneous rocks, it is unlikely that the liquid state of oil would be found in them. Now, if you take oil, and subject it to enough heat and pressure, you get a diamond. So... even though it might be very difficult to get it out, even something as solid as a diamond may be made of the very molecules that were oil. If oil were anywhere near a volcano, the oil would be turned into something else. Since igneous rocks are the results of this type of uprising from the surface, and explosions, and oil is usually found deep underground, that may be why the two aren't found together.

86 posted on 11/19/2010 10:35:43 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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