How Did So Much Oil Get Trapped Under The Ocean?
What is oil even made of? Here's how fossil fuels form in the ocean and how scientists know where to find it. How Uranium Becomes Nuclear Fuel ...
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Oil seems to pop up everywhere, in shale, under deserts and plains, and of course, underwater. But if oil is a "fossil" fuel, how did those fossils get under the ocean? Hey slick, Trace here for DNews. Oil is a mystery. Scientists don't really 100 percent know where it came from or how it got underground, but because we know about plate tectonics we at least have some ideas of how it got under the ocean. Oil is what we call a fossil fuel. It comes from dead things, especially when there are a lot of them gathered in one place. It's true that oil famously comes from deserts like on the Arabian peninsula, but that location is, well, more-or-less random. Roger N. Anderson of Columbia University told Scientific American, "Plate tectonics determines the location of oil… reservoirs...
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Oil seems to pop up everywhere, in shale, under deserts and plains, and of course, underwater. But if oil is a "fossil" fuel, how did those fossils get under the ocean? Hey slick, Trace here for DNews. Oil is a mystery. Scientists don't really 100 percent know where it came from or how it got underground, but because we know about plate tectonics we at least have some ideas of how it got under the ocean. Oil is what we call a fossil fuel. It comes from dead things, especially when there are a lot of them gathered in one place. It's true that oil famously comes from deserts like on the Arabian peninsula, but that location is, well, more-or-less random. Roger N. Anderson of Columbia University told Scientific American, "Plate tectonics determines the location of oil… reservoirs...
