What conditions are required for the formation of fossil fuels?

Answer 1

First the formation of petroleum fossil fuels. It is like baking a cake. First, you need sufficient ingredients or organic material. You need a container to make the cake, and in the case of petroleum fuels, you need to have a sealed reservoir. Frequently, water underlying the organic material will act as a seal, but there must be an impervious layer on top (cap rock) to trap the organic material. Next the material must cook, so you need adequate burial for millions of years.

It is likely to take millions of years to transform the organic material into petroleum. To be able to extract the oil, there must be in a place where it is accessible to drilling and be able to flow or be pumped out of the reservoir.

Coal is similar, in that there must be the organic material to begin with, but the container or reservoir is not necessarily a sealed one.

Answer 2

Yes. Fossil fuels were formed in the Earth's crust out of dead organisms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. Prehistoric plants and animals died, sank to the bottoms of swamps and oceans, and were covered by layers and layers of sediments and rocks. The layers increased the temperature and pressure on the plant remains, turning them into fossil fuels.

Answer 3

extreme heat extreme pressure and millions of years

Answer 4

low temperatures- For Fossil Fuels to form the climate has to be fairly warm, it needs to be in an area witn trees and swampy waters.

Answer 5

the conditions are that the fossils will need layer and layers of matierial

Answer 6

a dirty gray rock