| Description | Gold is enclosing a copy of the paper as now published. States they are now aware of some items in the relations of all carbon deposits - oil, coal and gas - that make the case quite clear that gas is the source quite generally, but organic hydrocarbon deposits are generally needed to get the process started that converts, in part by microbial action, further upwelling gas into more hydrocarbons. He could now tell a lot about this which is quite unanswerable, but Calvin needs to see the whole picture. Refers to both shallow oil and deep gas, and shallow coal and deep gas.
States the whole [atern of migration f of carbon, from the deep crust or mantle to its present crustal depxsition has ben misunderstood, and much of the process of deposition of unoxidized compounds occurred on the way up, before the stuff even got into the atmosphere. Thus they are not dependent on getting it oxidized in the atmosphere (a virtually instantaneous processs at present) and then reduced again by photosynthesis, but rather on capturing and laying it down before it even got out. He now has so much detail that the general picture cannot be doubted. But of course it is so far from the mainstream of the general discussion that most people will hate it.
Gold is also enclosing his review of the paper; to spare his colleagues the distasteful task, he wrote it himself. |