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How is plankton turned into oil and natual gas

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In these oceans, extremely small dead organic matter - classified as plankton - falls to the floor of the ocean It is this sediment on the ocean floor that then forms oil over many years. The energy in oil initially comes from the Sun, and is energy from sunlight that is trapped in chemical form by dead plankton

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