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Fossil petroleum fuels not from fossils { June 12 2008 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)
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Fossil fuel
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It is generally accepted that they formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants and animals[1] by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.[2] This is known as the biogenic theory and was first introduced by Georg Agricola in 1556 and later by Mikhail Lomonosov in 1757. There is an opposing more modern theory that the more volatile hydrocarbons, especially natural gas, are formed by abiogenic processes, that is no living material was involved in their formation.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/
"New evidence for inorganic origin of oil."
Chemical & Engineering News; 8/26/2002, Vol. 80 Issue 34, p30, 1/5p
Abstract: Discusses the abiogenic origin of petroleum. Formation of oil to inorganic carbonate rocks at high temperatures and pressures found only at great depths; Prediction on the thermodynamic conditions under which the hydrocarbons found in crude oil form.
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