Great observation 👍 The crust has been moving for billions of years in many different directions experiencing many different conditions. Example: A seven & a half metre coal seam we extracted was on a 45deg angle the top of which was only three metres under the surface. Yet the other end kilometres! Obviously coal can not form that shallow. Also the front 1.5 metre of the seam was high sulfur this occurred when the seam of coal was under salt water/ocean. The mine was hundreds of kilometres from the coast. 😀 Two great examples Not only was it at the surface where it can't have formed it was also a long way from where it became coal. 🖐 take care
So if petroleum is a hydrocarbon , and living matter is essentially carbohydrates then I would expect the rock to be saturated with oxygen because the oxygen has to go somewhere and leave all that hydrocarbon behind
OK, but the deepest fossil found was 16,000 feet. We find "fossil fuel" at more than double the depth. Oil rigs drill to 35,000 feet. So, is it from much older fossils we don't know about? How did the oil get so deep?
