Hi Burgy,
You wrote:
>Glenn -- is it a fact that all the oil we pump up from the earth has its
>origin in organic (i.e. from once living) material? I mean, of course, as
>far as we know. Or did some of it (possibly) originate from non-living
>chemical reactions on the early earth?
I probably answered this in my note to Blake.
http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200204/0688.html
I do think natural gas comes out of the earth but not in sufficient
quantities or rates or concentrations to power our civilization. Oil comes
from degraded dead marine animals and I think the evidence for that is
pretty solid. Gold tries to claim differently, has some interesting points
to make but in the end I don't think they carry weight. The fossil
biomarkers in oil seem conclusive. I didn't mention porphyrins which are a
decay product of chlorophyll. They are found in oil also.
glenn
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>Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:09 PM
>To: asa@calvin.edu; glenn.morton@btinternet.com
>Subject: The origin of oil
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>I know -- this is probably a "dumb" question. It did seem to me
>that part of
>the Gold hypothesis partly hung on the answer to that question.
>
>If the answer is "yes," and we find oil on Mars (or Europa), does that mean
>necessarily that life once existed there?
>
>Hoss (aka Burgy)
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>http://www.burgy.50megs.com
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