Question: Are the reserves located irrespective of sediments and then the correlation found, or is the presence of sediment a criteria in locating the reserves? You will only find what you are looking for.
One of the arguments for abiotic oil is that it percolates up - so most of it is deeper than we can find currently. There is also an attempt to correlate oil deposits with geothermal 'cracks' such as the middle eastern something trench I don't recall the name of. Does anyone know of studies (or even ancedotal evidence) of such linkage?
To address your second point (and no, I am not an organic chemist either), Gold posits that biological matter in oil is from microbes living in the crust - feeding on the chemical energy in the oil. Hence The Deep, Hot Biosphere.
As an off-topic side note, if this is true then there would possibly be oil on Mars and other planets - a nice kick in the pants for space exploration once we tell George Bush...
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Are the reserves located irrespective of sediments and then the correlation found, or is the presence of sediment a criteria in locating the reserves? You will only find what you are looking for.
One of the arguments for abiotic oil is that it percolates up - so most of it is deeper than we can find currently. There is also an attempt to correlate oil deposits with geothermal 'cracks' such as the middle eastern something trench I don't recall the name of. Does anyone know of studies (or even ancedotal evidence) of such linkage?
To address your second point (and no, I am not an organic chemist either), Gold posits that biological matter in oil is from microbes living in the crust - feeding on the chemical energy in the oil. Hence The Deep, Hot Biosphere.
A quick search on Google reveals much:
Tomas Gold has quite a bit of interesting information, including reference to an oil deposit sans sediments.
As an off-topic side note, if this is true then there would possibly be oil on Mars and other planets - a nice kick in the pants for space exploration once we tell George Bush...
Check out http://www.editplus.com/
By far the best text editor I have ever used. All of my development is done in this editor, since I have yet to find anything comparable in either BeOS or *BSD. It has syntax highlighting for virtually everything, and if it doesn't have what you want, you can add it very easily. And you can run arbitrary commands straight from the editor, such as compiling.
You want it, this thing has it.
The only drawback for all those free software nuts, it's shareware - free until you pay for it. But well worth the money, if you believe in that kind of thing.