The Deep, Hot Biosphere
by Thomas Gold
foreword by Freeman Dyson
1992 paper
Posted on 01/31/2008 9:42:53 PM PST by neverdem
The Deep, Hot Biosphere
by Thomas Gold
foreword by Freeman Dyson
1992 paper
Petroleum is just Carbon and Hydrogen (with a few elements occasionally making up another 1%.)
Anytime you get Carbon and Hydrogen mixed together in sufficient quantity, cooked up under pressure and heat over a sufficent time, you will get pretroleum and natural gas.
There are probably different modes of this occuring.
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Robots take scientists into sea depths
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 7/29/05 | Tom Paulson
Posted on 08/02/2005 3:42:11 PM EDT by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455539/posts
one result of the search:
Study shows that hydrothermal vents release mercury
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1999-10/NS-Ssth-061099.php
The magical properties of Mercury, the metal the EU wants to ban
Daily Mail (U.K.) | 6-7-07 | Michael Hanlon
Posted on 06/25/2007 9:29:40 AM EDT by Renfield
Fehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1855857/posts
and debeers tells us diamons are rare.
Thinking that the earth doesn’t make it’s own hydrocarbons is to put tape over your telescope. We see it made by non-living forces in our own solar system. But the earth is running out. Strange.
***I often thought there was too much crude oil to be accounted for by biological deterioration of dinosaurs. Once we understand the process and catalyze it, we can say bye bye to OPEC.
Fascinating article!
And now they've found methane on a planet in another solar system
I think the folks calling it fossil fuels and believing in peak oil. Thanks for the link.
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Earth could hold more waterThere is already thought to be several oceans' worth of water slightly higher in the mantle, at a depth of around 400-650 km. This region is called the transition zone, as it is between the upper and the lower mantle. The lower mantle's minerals can retain about a tenth as much water as the rocks above, Murakami's team finds. But because the volume of the lower mantle is much greater than that of the transition zone, it could hold a comparable amount of water... Any hydrogen in the rocks presumably comes from trapped water, an idea that other measurements support. The researchers found more hydrogen than previous experiments had led them to expect.
by Philip Ball
8 March 2002Inner Earth May Hold More Water Than the SeasBased on what they witnessed in their lab, the researchers concluded that more water probably exists deep within the Earth than is present on Earth's surface -- as much as five times more... Murakami and his colleagues reached their conclusion based on how much water they managed to dissolve under the experiment's extreme conditions in several types of material that make up much of the lower mantle. They used heat and pressure -- 25.5 gigapascals of it, or more than 250,000 times natural atmospheric pressure at sea level -- to create four mineral compounds that exist in the lower mantle... Earth's oceans make up just 0.02 percent of the planet's total mass. T his means the vast lower mantle could contain many times more water than floats on the planet's surface.
by Ben Harder
March 7, 2002
Perhaps more importantly in the short term, abiotic creation of hydrocarbons may mean that there is much still to be found.
The key hint of this non-dinosuar/non-biologicl decay process to me has long been the depths at which ever more oil is found: Even the Grand Canyon is sterile at only 5000 feet depth. Diamond mines are sterile at that depths ... But we are to image that at 10,000 feet and 15,000 feet down (in different types of rock of course) at many locations around the world that biological residues are being compressed?
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Yes, in sedimentary basins. Some examples include the Williston Basin, Anadarko Basin, the Michigan Basin, the Wind River Basin, and the Permian Basin, just here in the US.
In some places in the US, crystalline 'basement' rock is exposed at the surface (Igneous or metamorphic rock), in others, it is over 30,000 ft. down. The rocks aren't all in a nice, neat, layer cake down there.
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