Ich hatte die ganzen Sachen auf meinem Arbeitsrechner und kam bislang nicht dazu sie für dich herauszusuchen, doch hier nunmehr der Link zu dem PNAS-Artikel:
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/17/10976
The evolution of multicomponent systems at high
pressures: VI. The thermodynamic stability of
the hydrogen–carbon system: The genesis of
hydrocarbons and the origin of petroleum
J. F. Kenney†‡§, Vladimir A. Kutcherov¶, Nikolai A. Bendeliani, and Vladimir A. Alekseev
†Gas Resources Corporation, 11811 North Parkway, Floor 5, Houston, TX 77060; ‡Russian Academy of Sciences, Joint Institute of Earth Physics,
Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 10, 123810 Moscow, Russia; ¶Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Leninski Prospect 65, 117917 Moscow, Russia;
and Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for High Pressure Physics, 142092 Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia
Experiments to demonstrate the high-pressure genesis of petroleum
hydrocarbons have been carried out using only 99.9% pure
solid iron oxide, FeO, and marble, CaCO3, wet with triple-distilled
water. There were no biotic compounds or hydrocarbons admitted
to the reaction chamber. The use of marble instead of elemental
carbon was intentionally conservative. The initial carbon compound,
CaCO3, is more oxidized and of lower chemical potential,
all of which rendered the system more resistant to the reduction of
carbon to form heavy alkanes than it would be under conditions of
the mantle of the Earth. Although there has been observed igneous
CaCO3 (carbonatite) of mantle origin, carbon should be more
reasonably expected to exist in the mantle of the Earth as an
element in its dense phases: cubic (diamond), hexagonal (lonsdaleite),
or random-close pack (chaoite).
Weitere Puzzlestücke sind:
1. "The Deep, Hot Biosphere" -- Gold 89 (13) 6045 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-Dateien
2. Comment on "Mantle hydrocarbons: Abiotic or biotic?" by R. Sugisaki and K. Mimura; [kritisch]
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 59, No. 18, pp. 3857-3858, 1995
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3. Reply to the Comment by J.F. Kenney on "Mantle hydrocarbons: Abiotic or biotic?" (ebenfalls Elsevier, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 59, No. 18, )
Ich hoffe du liest dies noch!