Reports on astrophysicist Thomas Gold's effort to show that the primary source of petroleum and natural gas is not organic sediments buried at the earth's surface but primordial abiotic methane rising from deep in the mantle. Geologists' skepticism to the 'deep-earth gas' hypothesis; Gold's belief that granite shield under Sweden blocks the upward flow of methane from a huge reservoir in the mantle.
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