[w1andsodidwe]

Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil, according to a new study.

Well, I guess we can always hope for more of the same.

I wonder how much of my hard earned tax money funded this study.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil, according to a new study.

GREAT!!!

Drill *THERE*
Drill NOW
Pay Less!

[Gaffer]

Just doesn't seem to me that 'life' even on the scale of what's in the oceans can account for that amount of oil...never bought the 'dinosaur-to-oil' theory, either.

Seems to me there is a CO2 'bent' here in the story to be used later for justification to take control of everyone's liberty.

[aft_lizard]

While continental shelves have moved around a bit over the last 93 some odd million years wouldn’t it stand to reason that a vast amount of oil may still remain untapped at the bottom of our oceans somewhere?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Turgeon and Creaser found specific isotope levels of the element osmium...

Which I understand the Messiah plans to re-christen as the element "Obamium" after his ascendency.

[TigersEye]

"There's a bit of an analogy for what's going on today," he said. "What happens if we pump more CO2 into the atmosphere? This tells me that the oceans maybe have limited buffering capacity for CO2 ."

Who cares about CO2? It's good for plants. Make more CO2.

The primary evidence that CO2 and the greenhouse effect have anything to do with raising global temperature is missing entirely. It isn't there.

No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)

This is a short and easily understandable article showing the plain truth. The hinge pin that links global temperature to the greenhouse effect is missing. It is easily measurable and hundreds of probes have done so.

[TigersEye]

I guess this idea could explain why there is oil miles beneath the oceans where no dinosaur ever trod.

[centurion316]

I call BS on this one. How do you get “beds of shale” from a single geologic event? These beds are laid down over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. Perhaps a major earthquake or landside might form a local bedding layer, but world wide bedding layers? I don’t think so. The total biomass from a single event is not going to produce much oil. Again, you need thousands, if not millions of years of accumulation, preferably in an oxygen free environment.

[LiteKeeper]

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[ukie55]

My understanding of anaerobic conditions in large bodies of water is that once it goes anaerobic, it doesn’t clean itself up.

That was a concern with the Great Lakes in the 60’s when laundry detergent contained phosphorous. There’s always an anaerobic area at the bottom of the lake but since the phosphorus feeds the algae, the danger was that the anaerobic area would grow to a certain size at which it basically couldn’t be stopped. The whole of Lake Erie would go anaerobic with no chance of going back to aerobic conditions. It would have become a permanently polluted lake, like a stagnant pond. That’s why the legislation was passed banning phosphates from laundry detergent.

HISTORICAL PERSPECITVE OF THE PHOSPHATE DETERGENT CONFLICT

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/94-54.htm

So if that’s the case for the lakes, how would the ocean have been able to go back to aerobic if it had been anaerobic?