摘要
Chemical analyses of large quantities of recent marine sedements from the richest areas located during a survey of the distribution of organic matter in various types of modern deposits indecate that liqued petroleum probably does not occur in sediments at the time of their deposition, and that if it is present, it is in very small amounts, certainly less than 3 parts per 100,000 Therefore, petroleum present in newly deposited sediments is not an important factor in the genesis of oil.