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The Rocky Side of the World Without Oil

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Lately, there has been speculation of what would happen if all the untapped oil, by the handwaving powers of the gods of television and money, disappear overnight. It has been explained, in varying degrees of detail, how this loss would affect life culturally, technologically and environmentally. Yet one equally important angle is missing, just what is that angle? I wonder...

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Of course! The GEOLOGICAL angle!

This is an awfully big deal because, as these images show, oil is not a surface occurrence. The oil layer is vertically surrounded, both up and down, by rocks. If all the untapped oil on Earth just disappeared, the reservoirs now become empty gaps. Should that ever happen, would the rocks at the top of the reservoirs collapse, causing the surface to fall down?

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