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    How quickly does oil form?

    Oct 06, 2021 1 minute

    GEOLOGY

    ature takes millions, even billion, of years to create oil. The most ancient oil yet found was droplets of bitumen in 3.2bn to 2.6bn-year-old shales in the Pilbara region, found by Professor Birger Rasmussen, a geologist from the University

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