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Re: Earthquakes and oil fields |
Hmmm...not easy to answer but I'll take a partial shot. You need sedimentary basins to have oil. You need these basins to be preserved....not thrust so deep that they are metamophosed. There is not much oil in the old cores of continents...the cratons. Plate boundaries, where there are lots of quakes, also have lots of vertical motions that can make sedimentary basins. But, these can be destroyed by subduction or other tectonic processes. The Middle East would not be considered part of the ring of fire...and not sure if there is any tectonic activity in Saudia Arabia/Kuwait/southern Iraq....but there is folding and thrusting in part of Iran. There is a lot of oil around part of the active Pacific margin...Los Angeles, Indonesia, points north.. Another question is whether oil and gas production can trigger earthquakes. The answer is "makes sense" in certain areas. Follow Ups: ● Re: Earthquakes and oil fields - Canie 20:48:54 - 6/29/2006 (38907) (0) ● Re: Earthquakes and oil fields - Barbara 07:00:51 - 6/29/2006 (38884) (1) ● Re: Earthquakes and oil fields - chris in suburbia 14:46:56 - 6/29/2006 (38896) (1) ● Thanks ... - Cathryn 16:37:09 - 6/30/2006 (38945) (0) |
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