Oil and Kerogen
Posted on February 24, 2019 by Louis Hissink
The oil industry is adamant petroleum is formed from kerogen, and the only visible source seems to be the kerogen bearing sandstones in the various sedimentary basins. They are right, but not by the way they explain it.
If we assume that planets are either fizzled-out stars, or stellar ejecta, then such objects would have been formed by massive plasma Z-Pinches compressing energy into matter. The stable state of hydrocarbon under such massive compressive environments would be kerogen, and I would guess the upper mantle may host vast quantities of kerogen, or high Dalton number hydrocarbons. Diamonds would be an associated carbon phase as well as CO2.
There seems to be some spatial correlation between oil deposits and coal, and massive tectonic deformations or irruptions of external plasma sources that might have caused partial melting of the upper mantle kerogen forming methane and liquid hydrocarbons that subsequently migrated to the surface as exhalations, liquid seeps, or stalled by impermeable strata to form hidden reservoirs. In this model liquid H-C deposits are formed during global catastrophic events such as the K-T extinction or later Pleistocene events.
It is also plausible that these global catastrophes caused the eruption of quartz sands and loess from the various phreatomagmatic craters and kimberlite/lamproite/alkaline volcanoes or eruptions in which widely dispersed flecks of kerogen are often found and presumed to be the source rocks for petroleum deposits. Which suggests the massive sedimentary deposits of sandstones etc are volcanic sediments and not fluvial deposits. The presence of typical hydraulic structure such as cross-bedding, etc, can be explained by magnetohydrodynamics if the sediments are actually plasma-turbidites.
But petroleum is derived from the melting of upper mantle kerogen, just not from the burial of kerogen sandstones via imaginary subducion zones where the sedimentary kerogen is melted by metamorphism. Hydrocarbons are formed by the partial melting of the upper mantle during global catastrophes caused by exogenous forcings. The only difficulty is explaining how kerogen is biotic. Not difficult if you reject creationism and darwinism.
Posted on February 24, 2019 by Louis Hissink
The oil industry is adamant petroleum is formed from kerogen, and the only visible source seems to be the kerogen bearing sandstones in the various sedimentary basins. They are right, but not by the way they explain it.
If we assume that planets are either fizzled-out stars, or stellar ejecta, then such objects would have been formed by massive plasma Z-Pinches compressing energy into matter. The stable state of hydrocarbon under such massive compressive environments would be kerogen, and I would guess the upper mantle may host vast quantities of kerogen, or high Dalton number hydrocarbons. Diamonds would be an associated carbon phase as well as CO2.
There seems to be some spatial correlation between oil deposits and coal, and massive tectonic deformations or irruptions of external plasma sources that might have caused partial melting of the upper mantle kerogen forming methane and liquid hydrocarbons that subsequently migrated to the surface as exhalations, liquid seeps, or stalled by impermeable strata to form hidden reservoirs. In this model liquid H-C deposits are formed during global catastrophic events such as the K-T extinction or later Pleistocene events.
It is also plausible that these global catastrophes caused the eruption of quartz sands and loess from the various phreatomagmatic craters and kimberlite/lamproite/alkaline volcanoes or eruptions in which widely dispersed flecks of kerogen are often found and presumed to be the source rocks for petroleum deposits. Which suggests the massive sedimentary deposits of sandstones etc are volcanic sediments and not fluvial deposits. The presence of typical hydraulic structure such as cross-bedding, etc, can be explained by magnetohydrodynamics if the sediments are actually plasma-turbidites.
But petroleum is derived from the melting of upper mantle kerogen, just not from the burial of kerogen sandstones via imaginary subducion zones where the sedimentary kerogen is melted by metamorphism. Hydrocarbons are formed by the partial melting of the upper mantle during global catastrophes caused by exogenous forcings. The only difficulty is explaining how kerogen is biotic. Not difficult if you reject creationism and darwinism.