Considering oil forms under compression of trees and the like, doesn’t that mean there must have been a lot of life and vegetation there a long time ago? Why did all of that dissappear and only leave mostly barren wasteland?
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Fun fact, the organic material that makes up ~~oil~~ coal is from before bacteria that was able to degrade biological material had evolved.
Edit: Coal
Edit 2: this is just the leading theory, another theory of abiogenic oil formation also exists.
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