FORMATIONS OF PETROLEUM.
,A new" fbe'oty, says the " Athenmjm " based* cheifly on clieinicfal considerations,- is propounded b} r Prof. Mendelejeff regarding the formation lof petroleum m the interior of the 1 earth. From the fact that m Pennsylvania . petroleum occurs m the" Devonian and Silurian rocks, it afppears 1 to him highly improbable that the fluid hydrocarbon should be the result of the decomposition of organic remains, for but littler organic .life co.uld have existed m those ages, His theory, starting- with Laplace'shypothesis of the formation of our globe, assumes the existance of grea/t masses ' of iroty and, along ' with : itf of inorganic csSrbon, m the inner' parts of the earth. The water whrelv form the more' exterior regions, penetrates to the molten metal, is decomposed 1 ; its 1 oxygen goes to the' iron, whilst its hydrogen unites, undW the" influence of great heat and pressure, with the carbon, to form the varieties of Hydro -carbons whieh'make up petroleum.'
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 107, 27 October 1877, Page 3
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