That coal is the compressed and carbonized remains of prehistoric vegetation is known to everyone. Dr. John M. Macfarlane, Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that petroleum is the product of buried beds of organic matter derived from fish. He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish. Extensive zones of fish remains have been found throughout the northern hemisphere in the same rocks with rich bituminous oil deposits....
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