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To: Brumar89 who wrote (44613)	6/4/2005 4:08:32 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206363

Yes, as I understand it, North and South Carolina have been moving away from Africa since Jurassic times, and I was speculating that this stretching of the seafloor might have tended to release hydrocarbons. The land was stretched as well; all up and down the East coast from the Carolinas to New York State you have these lava flows from those times that produced fields of basalt or gabbro boulders in the Carolinas and make the Palisades along the Hudson. In low-lying areas in some places, especially Connecticut, there are dinosaur tracks from those times in the Triassic/Jurassic sandstones. I once read a history of petroleum exploration in North Carolina. Each paragraph ended, "The drill bottomed out in crystalline rock and no hydrocarbons were encountered." It wasn't very exciting reading.