It is that just oil true?
The oil is under the Earth's surface by the decomposition of marine organisms. The remains of tiny animals that live in the sea are mixed with the sand and slime which fall to the bottom in calm sea basins. These deposits, rich in organic materials, become crude oil source rocks. The process began many million years, when living organisms in great quantities, emerged and continues to the present.
The sediments are becoming more dense and sink in the ocean floor under its own weight. A measure that will accumulate additional deposits, pressure on the located below is multiplied by several thousand, and the temperature increases at several hundred degrees. The silt and sand harden and turn into shale and sandstone; the precipitates carbonates and the remains of shells turn into limestone, and the soft tissues of dead organisms are transformed into oil and natural gas.
Once formed the oil, it flows upward through the Earth's crust because its density is lower than the of brine that saturate the interstices of the shale, sand and carbonate rocks that constitute the cortex. Oil and natural gas amount through the microscopic pores of the sediments located above. Often end up finding an impermeable shale or a layer of dense Rock: oil is trapped, forming a deposit.
However, a significant part of oil not runs into impermeable rocks but that springs in the Earth's surface or at the bottom of the ocean. The superficial deposits also include obtained from bituminous Lakes and leaks of natural gas.
The new theory
He has recently edited the book "The Deep Hot Biosphere" (hot and deep biosphere), which is the culmination of more than fifty years of work in the life of this notable author. The thesis of Gold in "The deep and hot biosphere" is simple: hydrocarbons have existed since the early days of the universe, and are part of the process of formation of planets. Its components, hydrogen and coal, originated in "primordial soup" that formed the Earth. It said Gold that methane and oil from the Earth are Abiogenic, i.e. do not have a biological origin.
Contradicting the traditional explanations, Gold says that hydrocarbons are not disociaron during the early stages because of the high temperatures of planetary formation, as theorists argue, but that, as evidenced by the current geological science, temperatures were not high enough, especially when takes into account the pressures related to the depth.
Gold argues that the sources of hydrocarbons are at great depths beneath the Earth's crust, and not just a few kilometers, but hundreds of miles. The deep sources of hydrocarbons are still operating, pumping tons of oil and methane through crevices and porous rocks up to the more superficial sedimentary levels.
It is here where the oil equipment accessing the outcrops that have been endicados vertically in the form of oil reserves. Gold argues that oil is not the result of the decomposition of prehistoric plants; There was a few thousand of millions of years before that life appeared on the planet.
The hydrocarbons are found in geographical areas where the abundance of prehistoric life that is known to exist there might not ever have provided the amount of hydrocarbons involved. Most of the life of surface is composed of 90 per cent of water and 10% of organic compounds. So, even if all this 10% organic became "fossil fuel" it would be nowhere near the mass of hydrocarbons that have been learned over the past 130 years.
Because hydrocarbons are so consistent, the use of specific traces of metals can be used to identify their geographical origin.
The current oil reserves are filling again - from the bottom. Gold explains: "the phenomenon of the oil reserves that seem to be filling up again is something widely informed, most notably in the Middle East and the coast of the Gulf of the United States." "I view this as strong evidence supporting the theory of the gas coming from the depths of the Earth". The new theories of Gold opens the door to an exciting debate.
