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To: thackney
Do you understand oil and gas is only sourced to sedimentary basins?

That is one theory.

In the 1950's a few Russian scientists began questioning this traditional view and proposed instead that petroleum could form naturally deep inside the Earth. 'Dry' wells have mysteriously refilled. This so-called "abiogenic" petroleum might seep upward through cracks formed by asteroid impacts to form underground pools, according to one hypothesis.

Lots of different opinions.

6 posted on 12/18/2014 10:05:56 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive

That oil and gas is only sourced to sedimentary basins is more than just a “theory”.


7 posted on 12/18/2014 10:09:21 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: FatherofFive
That is one theory.

No. That is a fact.

No commercial oil production anywhere in the world outside of sedimentary basins.

proposed instead that petroleum could form naturally deep inside the Earth

That would be a theory. It doesn't follow many of the realities of where oil is found.

10 posted on 12/18/2014 10:15:05 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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