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     Creation of oil linked to mass extinction

5 Jun 09 – “Undersea volcanic activity triggered a mass extinction of marine life and buried a thick mat of organic matter on the sea floor about 93 million years ago, which became a major source of oil,” says a recent article in Science Daily.

         As you already know if you’ve read Magnetic
         Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps I think that oil
         was created in our very own skies. It was created,
         not as a result of the volcanic activity, but coinci-
         dent with it.

U of A scientists Steven Turgeon and Robert Creaser
say that the lava that erupted into the water "altered the chemistry of the sea and possibly of the atmosphere."

          I agree. In addition, I think that lava would have
          temporarily heated the seas.

Turgeon and Creaser found specific isotope levels of the element osmium, an indicator of volcanism in seawater, in black shale-rocks containing high amounts of organic matter-drilled off the coast of South America and in the mountains of central Italy.

          Yes, black shales can contain huge amounts
          of carbon.

          Here’s a quote from Magnetic Reversals
          and Evolutionary Leaps:

          “A visitor center in Parachute, Colorado, tells
          of a homesteader who built a black shale
          fireplace in his new home, only to watch his
          house burn to the ground after lighting a fire
          for his housewarming party.”

          I might also mention that black shales are 550
          percent more radioactive than other sedimentary
          rocks. I think that’s proof, all by itself, that there
          were much bigger forces than mere volcanic
          activity going on at the time.

An odd side-effect of the underwater volcanic eruptions, say the two U of A scientists,  “was that temperatures and carbon dioxide levels on the Earth's surface actually dropped.”

          All of that red-hot lava (2,150F hot) pouring
          into the seas leads to excess evaporation,
          which leads to more precipitation, which - if it
          falls in the winter – leads to an ice age and
          thence to lower CO2 levels.

See entire article, originally entitled “Volcanic Eruptions May Have Wiped Out Ocean Life 94 Million Years Ago”:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717095027.htm
Thanks to Peter Pesola for this link

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