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minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 month agoNot by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.
minus-squareprettybunnys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoFWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with. Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.
minus-squarehypnicjerk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·30 days agodinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·30 days agoBut aren’t their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)
minus-squareIrateAnteater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·30 days agoNot all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.
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Not by the usual definition. The carbon, etc that used to form the cyanobacteria is completely broken down and formed into miscellaneous hydrocarbons. There’s no petrified remains, nor rock impressions of the bacteria.
FWIW that was always my concept of fossil fuels to begin with.
Like whatever you just said, but for dinosaurs and all the life from before.
dinosaurs are a basically insignificant % of the biomass by my understanding
But aren’t their atoms perfectly preserved? (gasping at straws)
Not all of them. Some of the carbon atoms will have decayed into (I think) nitrogen.