THERE WILL BE BLOOD...slowly converted to oil!!!!

THE ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.
Science. 1889 Oct 4;14(348):228-30.

A PROBABLE ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.
Roger J.
Science. 1927 Aug 12;66(1702):152.

ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.
Brooks BT.
Science. 1935 Feb 15;81(2094):176.

ARE FISHES THE PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF PETROLEUM?
Henderson J.
Science. 1935 Feb 15;81(2094):176-7.


The Origin of Petroleum: Effects of Low Temperature Pyrolysis on the Organic Extract of a Recent Marine Sediment.
Whitehead WL, Breger IA.
Science. 1950 Mar 31;111(2883):335-7.

Why is this cool?
 Like many things, we take this simple fact that we take for granted. Imagine finding the black gold one day and building an industry on it. Later, someone would ask "Hey, where did that come from?" How would you as a scientist or thinker even go about figuring out the problem? You would first characterize everything in petroleum. You might look around and see where all those things exist now. Truth be told, I haven't read these articles yet so I'm not privy to the exact random path taken to discover the origin of petroleum. As far as I understand, things die and accumulate on the ground. As these dead things get covered up with dirt and crap like that they find themselves BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH!! Under the intense pressure of geological forces (I have the vaguest of vague ideas exactly how that works) those carbon based life forms are converted into power and industry!
 Curiously, whenever I think of oil, I always think of two creatures: 
that black thing from Phantoms

 
and

Hexxus from Ferngully.

  This may be PTSD from Ted Turner's personal war on pollution.