Posted on 04/15/2011 7:32:28 PM PDT by decimon
Ping
I knew it wasn’t ancient forests.
According to this it was.
So much for “peak oil” and the dinosaur/plants—>oil theory. Jupiter’s moon, Titan, has lakes of methane and it never had dinosaurs and plants millions of years ago.
"Do you smell oil?"
I always wondered how dead dinosaurs and prehistoric plants got two miles down anyway.
I’m not as familiar with oil as I am with coal.
There is a continuum with coal. Peat to lignite to sub-bituminous to bituminous to anthracite.
There are massive areas of peat being formed in the world today, mostly in northern Russia and Canada. When it is eventually buried and compressed, it will begin to change into the higher grades of coal.
I have little knowledge of how the processes that supposedly forms oil and gas may vary.
OMG! There are giant jacks floating in space!!
Funny, the Russians have been telling us this for years, as well as OIL being Abiotic and from compressed minerals NOT FOSSIL Fuel,Ancient Algae.....
That was the comment I was about to make. The eastern block gave up on “fossil” fuel long ago. The refilling oil wells seem to agree with them. It is simply methane or carbon and hydrogen trapped in the earth’s core when the earth was formed.
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe while carbon is a direct line element formed during chain nuclear fusion... like in a star...
“The Kola borehole penetrated about a third of the way through the Baltic continental crust, estimated to be around 35 kilometres (22 mi) deep, reaching rocks of Archaean age (greater than 2.5 billion years old) at the bottom.[7] The project has been a site of extensive geophysical studies. The stated areas of study were the deep structure of the Baltic Shield; seismic discontinuities and the thermal regime in the Earth’s crust; the physical and chemical composition of the deep crust and the transition from upper to lower crust; lithospheric geophysics; and to create and develop technologies for deep geophysical study.
To scientists, one of the more fascinating findings to emerge from this well is that the change in seismic velocities was not found at a boundary marking Harold Jeffreys’s hypothetical transition from granite to basalt; it was at the bottom of a layer of metamorphic rock that extended from about 5 to 10 kilometers beneath the surface. The rock there had been thoroughly fractured and was saturated with water, which was surprising. This water, unlike surface water, must have come from deep-crust minerals and had been unable to reach the surface because of a layer of impermeable rock.[8]
Another unexpected discovery was the large quantity of hydrogen gas, with the mud flowing out of the hole described as “boiling” with hydrogen.[9]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
........................... FRegards
Would be interesting to see what some of our ‘tapped out’ oil fields of today look like a few thousand or million years from now. I’d be willing to bet they would be as full as they were before we put a pipe into the ground.
There has never been any reason to beleive the Earth is any different from any other planet in having a large portion of its makeup being primordial methane. There is probably at least as much methane as there is water.
Bump for later.
That is a LOT of methane.
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