Fossils Not Necessary For Oil and Natural Gas

[NJ5]

ManusJustus said:

NJ5 said:
I will read that later, but as for the hydrocarbons in Titan I thought those were methane, which is known to result from simply joining hydrogen and carbon.


Also... I thought I read somewhere that virtually all the oil that has been found contains biological signatures.

Natural gas and methane are the same thing (CH4).

I hadn't heard about biological signatures, do you have more information on that?

It has been a long time since I read about the "abiotic oil" theories, but I'll try to find some sources later on.

But think about it... if oil and natural gas were truly being formed abiotically in significant quantities, why are they harder and harder to find?