*3D viewing and oil* This from the Ericy thread but they thought it spam! Shows a distinct lack of imagination. This is the sort of useful adjunct to WWeb Anita [TM] so that people can put on the glasses and see 'for real' what's going on somewhere.
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Nobody will be seen dead without one.
On crude oil formation, the Winn Theory [circa 1984] is that marine debris [sharks, whales, old seaweed, hagfish] falls to the ocean floor and is carried along at about 10cm per year, being buried over millions of years and is then carried with subducted oceanic crust under the floating continental tectonic plates.
Deep down, it gets super heated, under extreme pressure and is then carried with larva back up to the surface, being collected in sedimentary layers ready for oil drillers to come along and recycle it. If it comes up via volcanoes, it acts as a super propellant, making for very explosive volcanic action.
I'd noticed that ophiolites, which are igneous rocks which rightfully should be subducted, are flipped up onto the top of continental margins, correlated with crude oil.
Anyway, that's the short version. It didn't make me rich.
The New Paradigm is doing a better job. Don't worry Gregg, the sky isn't even the limit any more. The stockmarket can go on forever. It probably won't, but it might!
Mqurice
PS: Here's a bit more on the carbon cycle and crude oil
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With crude oil up 50% from the [admittedly very brief] low in December, there is a reasonable prospect that there will be a bit of a stockmarket crunch. That is a serious input price increase which might be good for BP, Shell etc but is bad for everyone else. The average over the past year or two hasn't changed much or is still down, so no real worries. |
