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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I can answer part of this. The Middle East is not barren. There is in fact quite a bit of lush forestry and not just sandy desert as many people believe. However, this oil was formed millions of years ago when the landscape was significantly different. Plates shift over millions of years, land is frozen and unfrozen, and new biomes emerge.
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