How Did So Much Oil Get Trapped Under The Ocean? 

Plastics are from fossil fuels and fossil fuels comes from dead dinosaur and other creatures. So if I'm playing with plastic dinosaurs does that mean I'm playing with actual dinosaurs? MIND BLOWN!

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This make no sense. This stuff didn't die all at once and fall to the ocean floor to be compressed into crude oil. The shear volume of crude oil means you'd need a volume of living matter probably 10 times that volume.

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Thanks Trace, your explanation of oceanic oil reserves was... pretty slick.

Does this mean we have been using the dead as fuel?

Missed the opportunity to throw fracking in after the gushing part. People need to know more about that aspect and how so much oil is made using these new methods.

Great videos for learning. Thanks!

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There are hydrocarbons on other planets and moons. So... dinosaurs and organic material decayed up there too. Also how did these dead dinosaurs and organic materical get 10 to 20 thousand feet below the surface.

So, you nailed it when you said the organic material has to be in an environment where rapid natural decay can't take place. I think that makes it nearly impossible for oil to have formed on earth. Don't forget that vast clouds of methane exist in space. Vast clouds that are millions of light-years across.

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Nice explanation. Has someone or some company ever tried to make oil? We know how diamonds were formed. We know similarly about pearls. Using the scientific approach to understanding how oil is made, has it been duplicated in the lab? That would really be proof that oil was made a certain way, wouldn't it?

Great job covering the biotic oil theory, now can you do an equilly good episode on abiotic oil theory that would explain why we are finding oil significantly deeper than what biotic oil theory can explain. Many oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico and in Russia dify biotic oil theory on where they are, what type of rock they are in, and how deep they are.

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Jack was on top of the world, now he's at the bottom of the sea.

really well explained!

Wow I have enjoyed the explanation sir, but is there any group for more infor on that...?

How these areas of oil deposites are located or traced ! Please make another video on it ,please 👍👍🙂

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As these oil deposits get buried under the plates, they must get compressed more and more by subsequent weight piling up on them. If the energy isn't released by drilling/mining it, which it presumably hasn't been for most of geological history, then the heat and pressure should lead to further breakdown of the molecular bonds and thus reorganization into denser structures containing the same quantity of stored energy. If no further densification/compression is possible, energy must be squeezed out in the form of conducted-heat, ejected neutrons in the case of radioactive/beta decay, and/or other energy waves, such as seismic waves. Lateral seismic waves under the plates may build up friction that softens rock into magma, lubricating plates to float and shift position. These plate shifts/tectonics that push land up from the ocean to form new land, mountain ranges, etc. may thus be powered by the biomass that sinks and becomes oil. If this is the case, then by mining up oil, we are competing with plate tectonics for energy. By releasing that energy above ground, we're adding power to the water cycle and winds that erode current land formations. So instead of allowing that energy to sink and power the formation of new land and mountains, we're using it to erode current land into the oceans, which contributes to sea-level rise. Amazingly, this equation can be radically simplified by simply understanding Earth's shape as expressing a degree of asymmetry proportional to the energy it transfers between the surface and the plates. More sunken energy causes stronger plate shifts and thus more asymmetry in the shape of the land, which in turn causes the oceans to be deeper and thus lowers sea level. Reverse the process and move energy from the plates to the surface and the released energy causes more erosion, shallower oceans, higher sea-level, and thus rounds out or 'symmetricizes' the shape of the land mass underneath the oceans. If this symmetricizing of the land-mass continues, we should eventually have a perfectly round land mass covered with an ocean of more-or-less uniform depth. No more potential energy will be stored in the asymmetrical shape of the land, i.e. as mountain ranges, depth-variations, and land-altitude diversity. However, warmer, shallower oceans may foster more biomass growth, which could be harvested as fuel to power the ships we have to live on because there's no land left above sea level. Wasn't this the premise of the movie WaterWorld?

Why is this biotic explanation still being propounded. The alternative abiotic explanation seems more likely now that we have found lakes and oceans of oil on the Saturn moon Titan. If abiotic is not the origin for the hydrocarbons on Titan, then you will have to acknowledge that Titan was once inhabited by life.

You should have made an animation showing the bit from oil rig to ocean floor and the bit from ocean floor to the oil.

Great episode, thanks a lot for it.

Very articulate and informative. Will show my 4th graders for sure!

Very well explained.

What about the hypothesis of abiotic oil, that being hydrocarbons that occur as a result of geological chemistry independent of life? The Soviets used to put a lot of stock in it and I wonder if it might not explain some oil deposits we find. After all we see Titan covered in hydrocarbons and as far as we know there is no life there to explain why.

Thanks for the info and leaving the politicizing to the comments : )

We produce about 100 million barrels of oil per day. I can't even comprehend how much organic stuff that much have been before it become oil.

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Nice summation

I understand very well thanks for this lacture

should make a video about the oil sands in Alberta how they were formed

I can't wait to die and become oil for those who live in the future~... ...If there are any people left ):

the great flood just makes sense. like sure tectonic movements do stuff, but if there's fossils on top of mount Everest, then a flood that killed almost everything kinds makes sense

Hey Trace: why do we get dizzy when we play spin the bottle? thank you

I think the ocean could use some freedom

good presentation

Continue with the processes explanations!

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My forehead’s oil will pay a lot, long in the future

Thanks for converting Imperial to metric, this needs to be said, thank you really :)

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thank you... super intuitive

How is this question even asked...???? The world is 70% water So most life would be in the ocean Dead stuff makes oil Wow no brainer

Imagine if all humans died and then a million years later, aliens use our dead bodies to fuel up their spaceships 🚀

You could make a series talking about an Earth without humans, lets say we go extinct so how nature will take over things again

Help me understand "accumulated" at 1:03. How does so much organic matter accumulate when it breaks down so quickly. Wouldn't it be logical to assume it had to accumulate fairly rapidly? Maybe a catastrophic movement of the plates? Just thinking out loud ... thoughts anyone? (Ah you just said that at 3:50 - that seems most logical).

I would love to know what chemicals are used in the fracking fluid that gets injected underground near aquifers.

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IF OIL / PETROLEUM IS FOSSIL FUEL HOW COME IT EXISTS ON DIFFERENT PLANETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM ?

You're making a video about oil and your sponsor is... an oil company that flooded the gulf. Interesting.

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hey dnews can you guys explain the hydroplate theory?

One theory is that a huge flood killed almost every living creature on Earth, and the resulting debris created oil.

USA after knowing that there is more oil under the ocean USA: guys prepare we have to get all that sweet oil😍

We are actually not sure if fossils have much to do with oil.

Thanks.... of you could tell us how and when was ozone layer formed and what quite the world been like without the ozone layer

What would happen is a volcanic fissure forms across an oil reserve?

so you're telling me we are using dinosaur oil and ancient oil and i use it for my car 🤔🤔🤔🤔

After the Great flood the fountains of the earth began to recede, they were drawn back into the Earth taking with it plant life, dead sea creatures etc. and that's the story of how all the oil got in the Earth.

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If it’s from decayed plant and animal matter ,how many plants n etc does it take to make a barrel of oil . With all the oil being pumped from the ocean floor and on land it seems to me , there was a time when the earth was 2/3 land 1/3 water idk

@0:16 *"Oil is a mystery.* Scientists don't really 100% know where it came from or how it got underground ...."

Last time I was this early there was still two WTC buildings in New York and flip phones were still cool.

How does oil come from dead things that are buried 30,000 feet in bedrock?

Can cooking oil can be use in transportation?

Lignin plays a major role in fossil fuel deposits. Neil deGrasse Tyson talked about this in his Cosmos series. Lignin is a molecule in wood and when trees emerged on the planet there was nothing else on the planet that could eat lignin. So, for millions of years forests grew and fell and grew some more. The leaf and wood litter would have been miles deep. When something evolved to eat lignin, probably a mushroom it consumed the top layers but the rest was buried and all of that carbon locked up under ground. Now we're releasing all of that carbon, millions and millions of years worth of it, back up into the atmosphere in the span of a half-dozen centuries.

so cemetery have much of oil?

I thought your explanations were poor at best but then I read the comments and realized the folks who watched this probably never finished high school……..

Anoxic or Anaerobic?

This guy is so clever. He knows everything

For some reason I thought this was gonna be about the oil spill back from 2012 (Or whenever it happened, might have happened a bit before 2012) XD

So just curious . If your saying living animals break down and creates this . Are there really that amount of Dead Sea animals to supply the entire world with oil ?

Plate tectonics, primarily, and the flood of Noe are the reasons for so much crude oil to exist -especially in the ocean.

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Except that has been well known that there are bodies in the solar system that have abiotic oil. One example is titan.

Sir, what we call crude oil flows like rivers and oceans in an underground civilization. Gog and Magog.

We are using dinosaurs for fuel?

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Thank you

It would be cool to know how R.F.I. chips work?

Earth: Making new oil, every day!

It's like a river underground

Knowing this, can humans create fossil fuels?

Let us thank British Petroleum's Deep Horizon for liberating all that trapped oil.

Funny how it will all be depleted in a century

My question is how do they even build those oil rigs in the middle of ocean?

When the earth is 70% water it kinda explains itself

You would have to have billions of animals die at once. And at the bottom of the ocean everything. gets eaten anyway.. I could understand the big asteroid causing it but I don't see it happening over time

could you explain about periodic table....

The lutters on ships put polution oils in the waters they dump it off just as a scrapper would drop off tired on the side of the road

So if you need organic matter, lack of oxygen, pressure, and heat then why can't it be man made? Those are all things that seem to be able to be in a lab or something.

How does the oxygen affect the fossil fuel forming ?