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The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels

By: Thomas Gold
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0387952535
ISBN-13: 9780387952536
Released: 01 Jun 2001
RRP: £11.50
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Forget Earth in upheaval; this is geology itself in upheaval - By: , 04 Sep 2001
Those who have recallled Dr. Gold's work for NASA & his controversial pursuit of 'deep black goo' in oil drill samples from Sweden will be delighted to read of the full story here. An audacious synthesis of facts into a revised world-view of the science of geology as stunning in its' implications as continental drift theory was in the last century. Anecdotes from classical historians such as Seneca are interwoven with compelling data on the influx of carbonaceous materials from space during the formation of the Earth. Briefly, the Earth we live on is neither so stable nor so homogenous as those raised on the color geology books have been led to believe. The interior heat of the Earth has distilled the organics into the coal, oil & gas deposits we use today--if true, implying a stunning abundance of fuels beneath our feet, literallly 4% of the volume of the oceans themselves, according to one estimate. The economic implications of this work alone make it worth reading.