Did dinosaurs provide enough biomass for world oil supply, or is it constantly being replenished?

I met this guy several years ago who said that he and those he knew in the scientific community had information that suggested that the dionsaurs could never produce enough biomass to create the oil supply we had allready used, let alone the stuff that was left, and that organisms like nematodes and small creaures who continuously die and have short life spans have been simultanoeously relpenishing the supply all along. He said that the government did not want that information known as it would not serve their moneymaking/ inflation plans. I met him through friends and he whas suspiciously shot in his home the year following, so I never got to re-open the discussion. was he messin with me? That being said, I know fossil fuel is not the answer, but im still curious about this biomass stuff. do any of you know anything about this? Just curious. please be nice. i dont have an agenda.Did dinosaurs provide enough biomass for world oil supply, or is it constantly being replenished?
There is a concurrant theory of abiotic oil. It suggests that there is an alternative process by which hydrocarbons are formed under pressure in deep layers of the earth. It is said that there are deep oil wells in Russia that seem to gradually replenish themselves. I've also heard, though not seen it confirmed, that the first oil wells dug in Pennsylvania seem to have replenished long after they were thought drained. Here's a couple of links that might help in your quest for information.Did dinosaurs provide enough biomass for world oil supply, or is it constantly being replenished?
ggod question i wish i knew
was he messin with me? yes, he was messin with you.


today, oil is always found under rock formations that were needed to compress and heat the organic matter.


i'd guess that most of it started out as something like peat, that's used in many places (Ireland for example) as fuel.


the real question is, why does it make coal, or oil?
Most hydrocarbons (excepting coal) are from marine life, things like cyano bacteria, algea, that kind of stuff. In the right depostional environment, they die, and are deposited in shales and clays at the bottom of the sea. In the right gological setting, if they have a resevior rock, a cap, and a geological trap, they can form a oil or natural gas resevior. Oil does not come from dinosours, and it is not continually being replentished, (at least not on a human time frame... there will be new oil deposits 50 million years from now). This is no secret. It's commonly believed and understood, not withstanding conspiracy theorists who are simply put... wrong.
Dinosaurs provided no biomass for the world oil supply.





Oil comes from the remains of single-celled marine plants which made wax either to store energy or to maintain buoyancy or both. This is why you find oil under ';salt domes'; or in shale (fossilized mud).





The oil supply in today's existing oil fields is not being replenished by present-day biomass. Sometimes you can get seepage from adjacent areas, but it's still fossil crude and not a true replenishing.

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