At Oilprice;
There have always been hints that volcano eruptions in dinosaur times could be linked to shale oil and gas resources, said study lead author Cin-Ty Lee, professor and chair of Rice’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.
Now the study by Lee, graduate student Hehe Jiang, and Rice undergraduates Elli Ronay, Jackson Stiles and Matthew Neal, in collaboration with Daniel Minisini at Shell, suggests that volcanic ash and the nutrients carried in it may have increased the efficiency of biological productivity and organic carbon preservation in the Cretaceous period.
In those times, the climate on Earth resembled that of greenhouse, sea levels were high, much of western North America lay beneath a shallow ocean, and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than ten times higher than it is today.
The link doesn’t link.
Repatriate the CO2, set it free. Submerging California seems like a side benefit.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Shale-Boom-100-Million-Years-In-The-Making.html
You tha man.
Facts and history, why confuse the Luddite ideologues?
Darn, and here I thought it was the succession of 1/2 tons over forty-eight years and the 3rd Honda Pilot that was too blame.
Greg, I agree, but not the part of the shallow ocean in the Saskatoon area.
There’s a part missing from the oil price article that makes the connection between volcanoes, dead zones and shale deposits clearer. From science daily:
“Normally, you don’t get any deposition of organic matter at the bottom of the water column because other living things will eat it before it sinks to the bottom,” Lee said. “We found the amount of phosphorus entering the ocean from this volcanic ash was about 10 times more than all the phosphorus entering all the world’s oceans today. That would have been enough to feed an oxygen-depleted dead zone where carbon could be exported all the way down to the sediment.”
The combination of the ashfall and oceanic dead zone concentrated enough carbon to form hydrocarbons.”
Also – tip – https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291683/#respond
Self driving Uber kills pedestrian. Link to insty who links to NYT
The attached article describes the “funneling” of Co2 into the oceans resulting in a bloom of plankton causing a concentration of organic material. I would argue that CA is the bottom end of an American funnel that deposits all the whack jobs in a concentrated sea of leftist depravity. And more recently the bottom end of a funnel coming from Mexico and locations south. I wish someone would FRACK the hell out of my formerly beautiful State. Suck all the blackness out of my State.
she is not a he:-)))
True, but the mixup isn’t a big deal to me. I won’t take anyone to a human rights commission for misgendering me. 🙂
I hope this will put to bed the notion that the world’s vast oil reserves are the product of decomposed dinosaurs.
How many dinosaurs lived and died on Titan?
Back in the 1960’s a bunch of Russian rock-doctors were pondering this.
Coal beds seem pretty straight-forward; lots of plant matter settles to the bottom of a large body of water. Past a certain point, this matter could not decompoe / be eaten in that environment because any oxygen in the water would be consumed in the early stages of decomposition. Thus, unless there was a generous number of anaerobic bacteria, etc. in the water, it simply becomes a “dead-zone”. IF the plant sludge is then covered by MANY successive waves of silt, and squashed by planet-scale pressures for a LONG time, if you are lucky, you might, in a few million years, get “Lignite”, brown coal. The interesting thing is that continuous movement of the planet’s crust eventually brought huge quantities of the stuff back to the surface; Hey Presto! The discovery of coal.
Our Russian cousins took a different look at the formation of oil; Abiogenesis, i.e. NOT formed by biological processes.
One of the keys to their hypothesis was the acceptance of the movement of crustal plaes; Tectonics.
Californians will be intimately familiar with lateral plate movements. What the Russians seemed to be saying two things: Firstly, that when subduction occurred, the “diving” plate dragged with it HUGE quantities of organic and inorganic material. “Somewhere” at great depth and pressure all this stuff got sorted out in what is essentially a gigantic fractional retort, like a “cracking” tower at an oil refinery.
Their second hypothesis is that when the planet formed, all manner of stuff was cooked and filtered in the process. This includes oil and “natural gas, as well at many other mineral formations. The process is on-going as we type.
Eventually some of the “cooked” material ends up on the surface again, like the La Brea Tar Pits and a lot of it is deep, even under the sea bed.
“The process is on-going as we type.” Interesting.
So much for peak oil and gas. All Luddites take note.
from an early age we are told hydrocarbons come from rotted dinosaurs. (get at those eager little noggins early!!!)
about 3 decades now, Ive had doubts about that notion.
among them, the very very high concentrations and volume of crude oil at substantial depths.
looking at other natural resources, yes, there are ‘concentrations’, but these ‘concentrations’ are vastly diluted by adjacent ‘dirt’ and rock.
*unlike* a lot of oil, certainly in the early ‘easy peasy’ days of oil exploration.
also we are told methane is a hydrocarbon from rotted biological matter. (exclusively??? incl outer space ?????????????????)
sooooooo there are/were dinosaurs on Neptune (temp -200) that explains the METHANE in that planet’s atmosphere?
etc etc.
cant ‘bulleave’ everything ya read!!! (unfortunately THAT is not drilled into the kiddies heads, just the opposite)
Carlin said God created humans so we could give the world plastic.
“The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allows us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question, “Why are we here?” “Plastic, assholes.”
Actually the whole thing is pretty good.
http://vhemt.org/carlinsaveplanet.htm