GLGY 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bog, Maceral, Sedimentary Basin
20 Jun 2020
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Fossil fuels: energy from dead organisms that lived millions of years ago. Light from the sun stored in carbon molecules stored in a rock form. To produce this energy, need to satisfy conditions. Some people believe oil is abiogenic (from mantle) Need to take organic materials from surface and alter them by increasing pressure and temperature to make oil and coal (similar to metamorphism of rocks) Metamorphism of organic materials to create new organic materials, which are the energy resources. Various different levels of animals and plants will use energy of organic material to conduct their metabolism. If organic material is thrown in sedimentary basin, it will get eaten by various things including animals, bacteria and fungus to become oxidized to forms that aren"t useable to us. Primary producers: take suns energy to make organic molecule by metabolizing suns energy. When they die we want to prevent oxidation by:
