Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Geochemical and geological advances over the past 20 years have made it possible to understand the origin of hydrocarbon source rocks such as this Kimmeridge Clay. It was deposited in warm sunlit waters that allowed prolific blooms of algae. The Jurassic was a period of global warming. Britain was then closer to the tropics than now, due to plate tectonic movements.
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject:
OK, I'll take a shot at this one. Although I used to be a geologist, I left the field 20 years ago, so I'm not totally up to speed on the latest thinking. The optimum conditions for hydrocarbon source beds are warm, shallow water (to promote plenty of organic growth) and raesonably rapid depostion (to bury the organic material that sinks to the bottom). These conditions usually occure along continental margins, where sediments are constantly deposited by rivers and streams. Coal is typicallly a continental deposit, being derived from plants growing in ancient swamps.
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