#Origin of petroleum?
06-Feb-95 19:02:28
Sb: #166245-#Origin of petroleum?
Fm: Jon Woolf 76557,3537
To: Kamron Kirkconnell 73740,2246
Kamron,
>> How is it all so …..? fresh?
Open up a supply to the air and its tar in a few hundred years.
This almost proves it only cooked for a few days or weeks. <<
Sorry, I don't think so. If petroleum becomes tar on exposure to air, that
only means that air has something that reacts with the petroleum to thicken it
into tar. And it further shows that the petroleum was never in contact with
air before. It doesn't say anything about how long the petroleum was in the
rocks, sealed away from the air.
Jon W.