I understand why we would find oil in the icy places north and south because of the ice age theories and Earth rotation stuff, but why is it found so deep underground and so deep under the sea. AND, why is there so much of it found in huge pockets?
AND, just for fun...how many gallons of crude oil could you get out of a T. Rex, say?
There must have been a very HUGE amount of old dinosaurs for us to have the billions and billions of gallons of oil we have found and that we probably will find.
And what about coal? I've always heard that anything that can burn was once alive.
Help me out here. And don't call me stupid. Just curious and lazy.
2007-09-02 08:36:07 · 4 answers · asked by Michael P 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Near-surface oil reserves have largely been depleted, so we need to look deeper and deeper as we use up the resources. In the early 1900's, there was lots of oil produced from within a few hundred meters of surface around Lake Erie (Ontario and Ohio).
Not all the world's fossil fuel (not feul) deposits are deep, for example the oil-bearing sandstones exposed on the beach in Santa Barbara, California, and the huge oil sand deposits in Fort McMurray, Canada.
Keep in mind that our ideas of fossil fuel originating from living organic matter (plants and animals) is a theory which has never been proven. It certainly seems very believable as there is a lot of very good evidence, but bitumens have also been found in Precambrian granites.
2007-09-02 08:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by minefinder 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you soul is your mind, then Hell by definition must be a state of mind. You only need a physical hot place if you are torturing a body, & the temperatures beneath the Earth's crust are Toxic not Torturous. Torture would be summer in Washington D.C. surrounded by pathetic losers wanting a handout. So anyone out there who've wished Obama would go to Hell - that will be these next few months.
2016-04-02 23:53:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is found deep in underground because fossil fuel is dead matter that decompose without Oxygen deep underground there is no oxygen thats we will find fossil
2007-09-02 08:44:50 · answer #3 · answered by peter d 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are lazy and I don't have the time or inclination to educate those too ignorant and lazy to find out their own answers.
Oil did NOT come from dead dinosaurs....
2007-09-02 10:53:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋