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How and where petrol came from?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

organisms that lived in the sea convert sunlight in to directly stored energy, when they die they fall to the sea floor where sedimentary rock covered them. the rock squeezed the organisms so their energy could not escape under great pressure and heat the carbon turned to oil.

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