"With... ... sealed within layers of inorganic ... long... geological processes can operate. Assuming typical s... [b]urial to 10 km would be equivalent to... 100-300°C. These... seem too low to drive... pyrolysis reactions... significant at... [≈]350°C. But... time is on our side... in geological time, tens of millions of years for catagenesis of humic kerogen."
January 1, 1970