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Continent below the oceans: how much and how far? The future for deepwater exploration (and geopolitics)
03/07/2011
Keith H. JamesConsulting GeologistCovarrubias, SpainSandrea1 discussed possible reserves remaining to be found in the world's deepwater areas with a most likely scenario for discovery of 50 billion bbl down to 4,000 m of water "beyond which most parts of the world do not carry sediments."US Geological Survey global reserve estimates are based upon conventional perception of the extent of continental crust below the sea—most submarine crust is oceanic and uninteresting. Reconstructions of Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed until Triassic rifting and Jurassic drift, show assemblages unrealistically on one side of the planet (http://www.google.es/images?q=pangaea&oe...
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