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minus-squareSunschein@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoFun fact: Oil mostly comes from the a mass extinction event involving cyanobacteria, not dinosaurs. We just can’t stop calling them fossil fuels.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days ago… are they not fossils of the cyanobacteria
minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoNot by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoBut aren’t their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 days agoFWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with. Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.
minus-squarehypnicjerk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agodinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding
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Fun fact: Oil mostly comes from the a mass extinction event involving cyanobacteria, not dinosaurs. We just can’t stop calling them fossil fuels.
… are they not fossils of the cyanobacteria
Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.
But aren’t their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)
FWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with.
Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.
dinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding