Primordial Oil Slick
- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 174 (4004), 53-55
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.174.4004.53
Abstract
Calculations and some preliminary experiments suggest that an early methane atmosphere would have been polymerized by solar ultraviolet radiation in geologically short periods of time. An oil slick 1 to 10 meters thick could have been produced in this way and might well have been of considerable importance in the development of life.Keywords
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