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Hoyle/Box 49/3/8
Unique identifier
GB 275 Hoyle/Box 49/3/8
Title
Typescript letter, signed, from Tommy Gold (Cornell University) to FH
Date(s)
- 30 Jun 1983 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1p paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Does not think that methane is made by bacteria beneath the earth's surface, but that the most likely source is the 'thermal dissociation of primordial hydrocarbons'. Oil will be deposited where the pressure drops in the methane stream.