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Oil fields are under too much pressure to be too old. Scientific estimates say that the longest maximum time a rock layer could keep pressure is 100, 000 years. And using this time-table the oil we have right now suggest that it is less than 10 000 years old, not millions.
Actually, such estimates aren't particularly scientific ... real petroleum geologists find them laughable because they're simplistic and unrelated to reality.
From
Oil deposits by Glenn Morton (former Young Earth Creationist and professional petroleum geologist):
"The pressure in oil wells is kept in by capillary pressure not in the way that Young-earthers calculate it. They use permeability and ignore
capillary pressure. ... Using a smectite grain diameter .0007 cm and a density difference of .1 for oil, we find that capillary pressure can hold a 560 foot column of oil without leaking. Salt can hold about a 4000 foot column if need be and many of the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico are associated with salt."
"Young earth creationists are wrong to ignore capillary pressure when
dealing with oil fields (of course very few of them actually work in the oil industry)."
And at
The North Sea Rocks Refute Young-earth Arguments he quotes from Leveille, Gregory P. et al. 1997b. Compartmentalization of Rotliegendes Gas Reservoirs by Sealing Faults, Jupiter fields Area, Southern North Sea, in K. Ziegler, P. Turner and S. R. Daines, ed. Petroleum Geology of the Southern North Sea: Future Potential, Geological Society Special Publication 123 (London: Geological Society), pp 87-104:
"The petrophysical properties of fault rocks encountered in the depth range of most oil and gas reservoirs are largely determined by the amount of cementation, mechanical grain rearrangement, grain fracturing, frictional grainboundary sliding, and cataclastic flow that has occurred. These processes control pore sizes and pore geometries, and thereby determine the porosity, permeability and sealing capacity (i.e. capillary pressure) of fault rocks."
Note that Glenn's recently moved his web site; the home page is now at
DMD Publishing Co. Home Page .
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