Meterials: Lettuce, measuring cup, baggies, refrigerator, markers, thermometer.
Goal: Replicate some (but not all) aspects of oil and natural gas formation.
Pre-Lab questions:
1) What are some conditions required for there to be oil or natural gas production in the earth?
-Pressure; NO Oxygen; Heat; biological material; time; capping rook.
2) Approximately how long does it take oil to form?
-200 million years
Goal: Replicate some (but not all) aspects of oil and natural gas formation.
Pre-Lab questions:
1) What are some conditions required for there to be oil or natural gas production in the earth?
-Pressure; NO Oxygen; Heat; biological material; time; capping rook.
2) Approximately how long does it take oil to form?
-200 million years
- mearsure two cups of lightly crushed iceberg lettuce.
- place one cup of lettuce in a ziplock ba