Comment on This map shows where oil and gas is found. Is there no oil and gas under the rockie mountains (circled red) or they just haven't found any because it's too difficult to drill through the mountains?

AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Unless those mountains were under water or covered in a tropical area a very long time ago, they likely wouldn’t have any oil in them because there’d be dead life forms in the sediment to get turned into oil.

Utah (seen on your map beneath Idaho) has both the rocky mountains and oil because 50million years ago it was covered by lake uinta.

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