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No. Oil comes primarily from dead algae laid down on the ocean floor. The oild itself forms in pore spaces in the rock, and later travels to pockest through faults and permeable rock layers.
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∙ 10y agoOil is formed mostly from plankton.
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What do dinosaurs and cars have in common?
Nothing really. The story that oil comes from the bodies of dead dinosaurs is out by about 70 million years. Oil comes from plankton.
Is oil made from decomposed dinosaurs?
There is a popular notion that fossil fuel is made from the remains of dead dinosaurs. This is not correct.Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) developed from organic (living) material subjected to intense heat and pressure over millions of years.Oil and gas came from plankton and other tiny organisms.Coal came from larger plants and animals, but not dinosaurs.
Did black oil come from dinosaurs?
No, black oil was formed from plankton and other tiny organisms 300 million years ago. Dinosaurs appeared around 270 million years ago.
Oil is made from remains of which marine?
Essentially, oil comes from plankton
How many dinosaurs does it take to make a quart of oil?
Oil is made from plankton. All the fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) began 300 million years ago, 70 million years before the dinosaurs.
How does plankton get turned into oil or natural gas?
Plankton died and sank down to the bottom of the oceans where they mingled with rotting vegetation over hundreds of millions of years ago (before the dinosaurs). Sand and rocks fell on top. The pressure over the years turned the organic matter into coal and oil.
Does anyone really believe oil is from dead dinosaurs Or that coal is from plants?
Scientists don't just believe, they know coal is formed from ancient plants compressed in anaerobic environments. However, nobody with a knowledge of geology or paleontology believes oil is formed from dinosaurs. Oil is primarily formed from plankton and algae.
What made the dinosaurs?
i believe that God made the dinosaurs.
Do petroleum come from plankton?
petroleum comes from the remains of every living creatures that existed millions of years ago such as dinosaurs, the sea creatures and most likely ancient plankton also
How do oil spills affect plankton?
It kills them. Plankton are myriad different sea creatures. They all die. Some bacteria can actually ingest oil, though.
How Is Oil produced?
Carbon and Hydrogen: Crude oil was made over millions of years from tiny plants and animals, called plankton. The plankton on the left would form oil in about 150 million years time if the sea bed is not disturbed. The plankton that lived in the http://www.answers.com/topic/jurassic-period made our crude oil. This was the time of the dinosaurs. It was about 180,000,000 years ago. When plankton die, they fall to the bottom of the sea. The plankton are trapped under many layers of sand and mud. Over millions of years, the dead animals and plants got buried deeper and deeper. The heat and pressure gradually turned the mud into rock and the dead animals and plants into oil and gas. Oil is formed over millions of years. It is held in tiny spaces in underground rock, like water in a sponge. Some rocks have tiny spaces called pores. The rocks with these pores can hold the oil like a sponge. The cap rock stops the oil from escaping. Over millions of years, the rocks fold. Sometimes they form a dome shape that can catch the oil. Oil can float up through the tiny spaces in the rock. We call these tiny spaces pores and we say that the rock is porous. This takes millions of years. The oil can't get through the cap rock and is trapped in the dome of rock underneath. The cap rock stops the oil from escaping. The rock layer underneath has tiny spaces, or pores, in it. Although it is solid, it can hold the oil like a sponge. The oil companies can drill into this rock to recover the oil.
What did you use oil for when dinosaurs where around?
Contrary to popular belief, oil does not come from dinosaurs. Oil is formed by algae that sinks to the bottom of the ocean and is then buried. Many oil deposits in the world predate the dinosaurs. Additionally, dinosaurs walked the earth for about 160 million years, which is more than enough time for algae to be buried and converted into oil.
