Obtenebrator
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Ahhhhh, yup..... "studies"...I'm supposed to believe that "studies" show that fossils somehow penetrate impermeable rock in order to transform into oil and natural gas. hahahahahahahahahaha
Where do you get this shit? Seriously no one thinks that way.
Let me tell you from the perspective of someone who studied organic geochemistry in grad school:
Fossil Fuels is a common parlance term for what happens when organic material (such as plants, algae and bacteria) are buried deeply and thermally break down to form smaller hydrocarbons like oil or break down to form large organic molecules like coal.
They are organic in that they are mainly C, H, O, N, etc.
In the formation of oil the organics break down in a specific way and the lighter hydrocarbons which are created move out of the "source rock" (a shale, for example) and migrate over into a "reservoir rock" which is more porous and permeable. That is where we put oil wells so they can pull the fluid out of the pores.
In the formation of coal the organics break down in ways to make a solid material that is mainly C, H, O and a few other elements. This can be burned to produce energy as well
Now I know you didn't read this far because there was too much information for your simple little brain. But trust me when I say that we can easily see the original chemical signatures in the oil or the coal. In oil we have biomarkers like porphyrin rings which derive from the breakdown of chlorophyl, or pristane and phytane which are from the hydrocarbon tail that hangs off a chlorophyl molecule. In the coal itself we can see actual STRUCTURES that were the cell walls of the plants. Even the tracheids in plant cell walls still remain in some coal "macerals" (the organic version of "minerals" if you will).
You don't even know the basics of this topic. Why do you insist on posting your bullshit?
