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A strange phenomenon shows abundance of possible crude oil in earth’s crust replenishing the drawn out reserves
Some strange things are happening in the field of oil exploration. Almost all over the world, in many oil and gas fields (not all) as crude oil and gas is being pumped out at a rate never witnessed before, the reserves are actually getting replenished through some strange phenomenon.
According to sources the phenomenon is especially conspicuous in offshore oil and gas fields.
According to researchers the earth’s crust which is thinner under the ocean is experiencing a strange behavior that may actually be very helpful for fossil fuel based energy supply.
The earth’s rocky crust and the upper mantle form the Lithosphere. According to some geologists, the lithosphere has recycled itself for millions of years starting from the time when life started on the earth. As a result, fossils are all over the planet’s lithosphere not just on top part of the crust.
As a result, as oil and gas are depleted due to extraction, the density difference between heavy rocks and these embedded fossil fuels all over in the lithosphere are replenishing the oil and gas fields.
The phenomenon is not conspicuous in all oil or gas fields. For example in the Middle East this is not happening. The reason that this does not happen in every oil and gas field in that in many cases, the embedded fossil fuel cannot surface in the void created by the oil and gas exploration because there are non- permeable rocks separating the embedded reserves and the void created by the exploration.
It is an accepted fact that the earth’s crust especially under the oceans does recycle. According to a theory called Wadati-Benioff zones, or simply Benioff zones earthquakes tend to be concentrated in certain areas, most notably along the oceanic trenches and spreading ridges. The prominent underwater earthquake zones parallel to the trenches that typically were inclined 40-60° from the horizontal and extended several hundred kilometers into the Earth.
Geologists believe that the ocean floor and underwater portion of the earth’s crust are continuously getting recycled. In certain areas, the magma is expanding, creating new ridges and therefore older ridges are moving apart. Based on this, do not assume that earth is expanding. In certain areas under the ocean, the magma is actually receding. When magma recedes, that part of the world experiences less stress and the porous crust can accumulate fossil oil and gas. Eventually as the magma recedes further, the ocean floor collapses into the magma. On another side of the world thousands of miles away, new ridges are formed and magma comes out to support the theory of expanding or shifting-apart ocean floors. Many Geologists believe, under ocean fault lines are caused by this phenomenon at any instance of time.
Based on this phenomenon, it is probable that earth’s oil and gas fields are getting replenished with fossil fuels embedded in the lithosphere.
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