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Originally Posted by sendler

Yes. Marine deposits of dead plankton. Compressed and heated for 5 million years. And then abducted back to the surface. I can't wait.

That's what I'm saying. We're pumping it faster than it's being replenished.The plankton in the ocean are outweighed bu the bacteria living in the crust.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=deep+hot+abiotic+oil+precursors

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Abiogenic petroleum origin is a term used to describe a number of different hypotheses which propose that petroleum and natural gas deposits are mostly formed by inorganic means rather than by the decomposition of organisms. Thomas Gold's deep gas hypothesis states that the origin of some natural gas deposits were formed out of hydrocarbons deep in the earth's mantle. Theories explaining the origin of petroleum as abiotic, however, generally not well accepted by the scientific community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abioge...enic_petroleum

Primordial deposits
5.2 Creation within the mantle
5.3 Hydrogen generation
5.4 Serpentinite mechanism
5.5 Spinel polymerization mechanism
5.6 Carbonate decomposition

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The shock came when she realized the microbes in the gabbroic layer were totally different from those that lived in basalt.

"We did not see any overlay in the microbial community at all, so that was a surprise," Mason told OurAmazingPlanet.

Stephen Giovannoni, a professor and microbiologist at Oregon State University, said that of the bacteria Mason discovered, almost all seem to live on hydrocarbons (organic chemicals that are made up mostly of hydrogen and carbon), in particular, methane.

Giovannoni compared the newfound microbes to the oil-digesting organisms that seemingly consumed much of the oil also a hydrocarbon that gushed into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP oil spill earlier this year.

Adding intrigue to the story, it appears the hydrocarbons these deep-dwelling microbes eat may be produced inside the Earth itself, in a mysterious process entirely independent of the power of the sun, the energy source for almost all life on our planet.

https://www.livescience.com/29857-mi...ths-crust.html