And another, even more important industrial material, petroleum, may also come from themantle.
另外一种更重要的工业原料石油也是来自地幔。
Among petroleum geologists in Western countries, the consensus is that crude oil andnatural gas are formed near the Earth s surface from the fossilised bodies of living organisms.
在西方国家的石油地质学家中,原油和天然气是在靠近地表处由生物有机体的硬化部分而来。
Many Russians, though, disagree.
然而许多俄国人不同意这点。
They support the 130-year-old idea of their countryman Dmitri Mendeleev.
他们支持他们同胞门捷列夫有130年历史的观点。
He thought the temperatures and pressures of the mantle would convert carbonates andwater into hydrocarbons.
门捷列夫相信,地幔的温度和压力会把碳和水转变成碳氢化合物。
That has, indeed, been done experimentally in the past.
实际上,在过去的试验中见证了这点。
And one role of the Deep Carbon Observatory will be to try to do it again in moresophisticated ways.
而深碳观测站的一个作用就是用更加复杂的方式来尝试重新做这种试验。
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