Latest Abiogenic petroleum origin Stories

2011-04-17 07:33:21


2010-03-23 08:30:00

SAN DIEGO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- For decades, an unsuspected geological blunder has limited crucial technical understanding of how, where and why petroleum and natural gas deposits form.

2009-07-26 14:45:31


2009-01-15 14:35:55

Huge methane gas bursts on Mars appear to be caused by bacteria rather than volcanic activity, U.S.

2008-01-31 14:30:00

Hydrocarbons â€“ molecules critical to life â€“ are being generated by the simple interaction of seawater with the rocks under the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.

2004-12-16 07:50:00

The limits to life have consistently listed carbon-based organisms as central. While methane-consuming microbes are still carbon-based, they do offer novel ways to extract energy even without light or oxygen. Their role in our solar system is a subject of fruitful speculation.

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