Young oil of Baikal

V.A. Kashirtsev

In recent years several academic institutions have actively studied the oil sampled from the surface and water body of Lake Baikal. In 2008 oil samples were taken from the bottom of the lake for the first time. The nature of the oil has been discussed since the 1930s. The oils were found to contain a unique set of hydrocarbons-biomolecules mostly typical of lipids of organic matter of higher land plants including angiosperms. These plants appeared on the Earth less than 100 million years ago. According to more accurate geological data, the Baikal oil is of Cenozoic age, younger than 65 million years

FREE DOWNLOAD this article (.pdf)

Content

More information on these and other subjects you can find in the printed version of our journal.