Oiling the wheels of controversy


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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe THE DEEP HOT BIOSPHERE * _Thomas Gold_ Springer: 1999. 235 pp. $27, £19 Modern society relies heavily on petroleum for energy, and life would


be very different without it. The term ‘fossil fuel’ effectively informs us that the origin of oil is from the bodies of dead plants and animals, altered initially by microbial decay, and


then ‘cooked’ under pressure and at relatively high temperatures during burial to several kilometres' depth. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution


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about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills


Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 IRJ, UK R. John Parkes Authors * R. John Parkes View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND


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