electronDegenerate
Bluelighter
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I don’t wanna be that guy
But
Oil didn’t actually come from dinosaurs. The life forms that became oil massively predate dinosaurs and are thought to be simple cell organisms like plankton.
I have been interested in stratigraphy for a while. Coal is similar to oil and mostly all came from the Carboniferous period. It predates the fungi and bacteria that could break down the bark of the early trees by something like 60 million years. So all the trees from this time (that didn’t burn in some super fire) just stacked up endlessly and were eventually buried, becoming coal. It’s a similar story for oil with marine organisms.
interestingly enough iron ore is the same way. It all came from the great oxygenation event which caused iron to precipitate out of the oceans. There is alternate ways to get iron, but it’s not the same as iron ore. You have to get to a certain stratigraphic layer to reach it
But
Oil didn’t actually come from dinosaurs. The life forms that became oil massively predate dinosaurs and are thought to be simple cell organisms like plankton.
I have been interested in stratigraphy for a while. Coal is similar to oil and mostly all came from the Carboniferous period. It predates the fungi and bacteria that could break down the bark of the early trees by something like 60 million years. So all the trees from this time (that didn’t burn in some super fire) just stacked up endlessly and were eventually buried, becoming coal. It’s a similar story for oil with marine organisms.
interestingly enough iron ore is the same way. It all came from the great oxygenation event which caused iron to precipitate out of the oceans. There is alternate ways to get iron, but it’s not the same as iron ore. You have to get to a certain stratigraphic layer to reach it