The hypothesis is that fossil fuels natural gas lpg crude oil coal are not fossil fuels at all but are formed from hydrocarbons that were trapped in the earths mantle during the formation of the earth itself primarily ethane c2h6 and methane ch4 and that those gases along with others such as hydrogen sulfide h2s provide the chemical energy required to sustai. The deep hot biosphere hypothesis would explain the thermophiles the minerals and the oil swedish drillers found in 1990 under rock where no one expected them the hot goo and massed gas far under our feet would also explain some mysterious historical earthquakes notably the new madrid mo shocker of 1811 and it would tell puzzled geologists why so many oil reserves just happen to sit underneath coal fields. The deep hot biosphere hypothesis would explain the thermophiles the minerals and the oil swedish drillers found in 1990 under rock where no one expected them the hot goo and massed gas far under our feet would also explain some mysterious historical earthquakes notably the new madrid mo shocker of 1811 and it would tell puzzled geologists why so many oil reserves just happen to sit underneath coal fields. In the the deep hot biosphere thomas gold sets forth truly controversial and astonishing theories about where oil and gas come from and how they acquire their organic signatures the conclusions he reaches in this book might be at first difficult to believe but they are supported by a growing body of evidence and by the indisputabel