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Hydrocarbons Could Form Deep In the Earth From Methane, Not Animal Remains
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| April 15, 2011
| Rebecca Boyle
Posted on 12/25/2012 9:38:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/25/2012 9:45:53 PM PST
by
redhead
(America!! Remember who you are!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unless there used to be dinosaurs on Titan, there have to be other ways of getting methane other than that.
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posted on
12/25/2012 9:46:48 PM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But the theory fell out of favor, in part because no one ever found any abiogenic oil deposits... I believe that abiogenic oil is all they ever found.
To: redhead
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posted on
12/25/2012 9:52:19 PM PST
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Several long depleted oil reservoirs, one off of Florida, have been refilling for no know reason.
Have long suspected that might be the reason.
One of my old bosses (geologist and mechanical engineer) thought that was the case back in the 80s.
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posted on
12/25/2012 9:54:21 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: eartrumpet
I believe that dinosaurs invented light-speed spaceships and travelled to other worlds, where they grew algae and died, creating huge pools of hydrocarbons across the universe. How else would hydrocarbons be found on distant planets???
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?hpf=1&a_id=122925
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posted on
12/25/2012 9:56:17 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No S#!+?
Jupiter, Saturn and and any number of moons and comets are hip deep in methane and more complex hydrocarbons. Either that's prima facie evidence of ubiquitous life in the outer solar system, or abiotic methane/hydrocarbon formation.
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posted on
12/25/2012 10:10:45 PM PST
by
null and void
(Going Galt: The won't of the people)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'll have to go troll some peak oil forums tomm.
No doubt WND and Mr. Corsi are working on some articles for pub.
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posted on
12/25/2012 10:14:54 PM PST
by
Theoria
(Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Methane, and perhaps some traces of higher carbon molecules are definitely possible in deep planetary interiors. But crude oil is, and will only be found in biogenic sediments.
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posted on
12/25/2012 10:16:11 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“...aside from the compression and heating of ancient animal remains over the eons...”
This theory makes no sense at all. How many animals/plants would it take to undergo this compression and heating in order to give us petroleum products for decades? And how this byproduct seeps miles into the earth? Appears to be a fable, not science.
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posted on
12/25/2012 10:40:23 PM PST
by
DennisR
(Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If certain MOONS in our solar system have LAKES of frozen methane..
not to speak of Saturn and Neptune I would say Duuuuugh..
Methane appears to be a totally natural occurrence..
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posted on
12/25/2012 10:44:39 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: DennisR
There are countless microfossils and their traces within crude formations. Moreover, there are permeable metamorphic amd igneous structures that could contain crude deposits, but they don’t, unless migration has been accomodated by geophysical contact with crude bearing sediments, but these are exceedingly rare.
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posted on
12/25/2012 10:58:35 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: DennisR
‘Hydrocarbons Could Form Deep In the Earth From Methane, Not Animal Remains’
Always have and always will.
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posted on
12/25/2012 11:33:26 PM PST
by
taterjay
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Before people get too excited, from the article:
About 99 percent of all the hydrocarbons in oil and natural gas are derived from the compressed, heated remains of ancient living organisms like zooplankton and algae. These critters were buried under layers of sediments five to 10 miles beneath the surface of the Earth.
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posted on
12/25/2012 11:51:08 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"These critters were buried under layers of sediments five to 10 miles beneath the surface of the Earth."NOW I understand ..
It was that sudden dirt rain that buried the first earth, NOT a flood, that caused all this deep in the bowels of the earth stuff.
Dirt rain ..
Gott'a remember that ...
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posted on
12/25/2012 11:51:50 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: eartrumpet
i first heard this theory about ten years ago and it just made so much sense.
But i am not an expert and am waiting to hear more information, just from an esthetic point of view i hope you are correct
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posted on
12/26/2012 12:17:53 AM PST
by
genghis
To: genghis
The earth replenishes oil just like the body replenishes blood. It’s a natural process that will not stop until the planet itself dies a final death.
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posted on
12/26/2012 12:34:31 AM PST
by
MestaMachine
(It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
To: MestaMachine
That should read the sea replenishes oil just like the body replenishes blood. As long as we have the sea we’ll have oil.
To: The Cajun
You can never completely deplete a field.
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