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Donal on June 16, 2006 - 9:45am

Much of the land in the southern hemisphere is Antarctica. To have "biotic" oil, Antarctica would have had to experience millions of years of sustained vegetative growth, right?

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smekhovo on June 16, 2006 - 11:20am

Well, it did ... but is geologically unpromising in other ways, as far as I know.

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AlanfromBigEasy on June 16, 2006 - 1:09pm

There have been coal seams discovered in Antartica. Several times in geological history Antartica has had abindant plant & animal life, but not for a majority of the time.

Perhaps there is oil in Antartica, but the repeated addition and removal of ice sheets should surely stress the geology of Antartica and I would not be surpriced if most of the oil did not escape after repeated "flexing" of the cap rock and associated fractures.

Antartica is a small continent. Slightly smaller than Australia from memory. So I have little hope for more than a trickle of oil from there by 2150.

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plucky underdog on June 17, 2006 - 11:23am

Sheesh... that article is real tinfoil-helmet stuff. But then they're gold bugs, aren't they? Most of the world's land is in the North; most of the world's continental shelf; most of the world's sedimentary basins; hence most of the oil.

Look here >>> http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-50720

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