re: #257 Mich-again

I think what it says is that there must be some other way for hydrocarbons to form other than through decaying organic matter. But that’s not enough to say that other way is how it happened here.

American Physical Society, APS March Meeting, March 5-9, 2007, abstract #D23.009

The concept of the abiotic deep genesis of hydrocarbons, developing during the last 50 years in Russia, recognizes petroleum as a primordial material of deep origin erupted into the crust of the Earth. Until recently, this concept was a geologists’ hypothesis. Now, theoretical arguments and experimental results place the modern theory of the abiotic deep genesis of hydrocarbons in the mainstream of modern thermodynamics, experimental physics and physical chemistry. Recent experimental results confirm the possibility of hydrocarbon synthesis under conditions of the upper mantle. The mixture of the hydrocarbons has been obtained as a result of chemical reactions in the system CaCO3-H2O-FeO at pressures of 3-5 kbar and at temperatures of 1200-1500 K.

Two different paths of hydrocarbons synthesis were detected using X-ray, mass-spectrometer and chromatograph analysis. These experimental demonstrations of the spontaneous, high-pressure genesis of hydrocarbons can be accepted as partial proof of the modern theory of petroleum. Modern Russian petroleum science allows application of a new approach to methods for petroleum exploration, oil and gas formation, and to reexamine the world’s hydrocarbons reserves.