Re: Is oil still consider to have come from dead dinosaurs & decaying leaves?
- From: Rolf Martens <rolf.martens@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:02:13 GMT
In article <430A2D76.71FCC17F@xxxxxxxx>, gcowan@xxxxxxxx says...
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>Gary Helfert wrote:
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>> If oil is in fact from decayed organic material then where there is oil
>> there must be an awful lot of water as most organics are 70% water. Anybody
>> know if this is true. The Middle East may have vast reserves of water in
>> those deserts.
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>All the oil ever mined, if it had been put on top of
>the world's ocean rather than burned,
>would make a slick about 1 millimetre deep.
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>Under the oil, yes, they have water.
>http://www.csis.org/energy/040224_baqiandsaleri.pdf
But that's irrelevant. Oil has abioic origins, and
the laws of physics and chemistry prohibit its formation
(in nature) out of biological matter (which stays at or
close to the earth's surface). Conditions which exist
in the mantle are necessary for oil's being formed.
See http://www.gasresources.net.
Rolf M.
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