[aculeus]

Gold suggested bacteria deep in the Earth were creating the carbon compounds.

[f.Christian]

Canyon on mars...not enough dust on the moon---evoschlock is going down---hard!

[Dan Cooper]

Gold suggested bacteria deep in the Earth were creating the carbon compounds.

Gold suggested that hydrocarbons are formed from primordial methane upwelling from the inner crust and that bacteria evolved that could feed on these hydrocarbon and oxygen from the surrounding rocks.