Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?
Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 12:35
in Physics & Chemistry
Washington, DC -- The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years whether some of these hydrocarbons could also have been created deeper in the Earth and formed without organic matter.