The origin of peat and lignite
Danilo Anton
Thomas Gold (2001) goes a step further in their arguments about the abiotic mineral origin of hydrocarbons claiming that even the formation of peat and lignite may be related to the processes of migration of
hydrocarbons to the surface.
This
author assumes that there are certain areas where there is greater
flow, generally upward, of hydrocarbonaceous fluids, passing through
the soil subsurface formations and generating a reducing environment
that prevents oxidation of litter.
In
these conditions organic matter does not decompose accumulating in
the form of peat and lignite.
Gold
concludes that while the peat and lignite are of biological origin,
the geological environment where they develop is not..
According
to this approach, peat and lignite would be somehow the deposits that
may overlie coal seams, which in turn would overlie oil and gas
surgencies.
In
other words, lignite and peat would be the product of updrafts of
hydrocarbons at regional or local level.
From: "Unexhaustible? Petroleum and Gas", Danilo Anton, Piriguazu Ediciones
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