naphthogenesis
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naphthogenesis (uncountable)
- (geology) The genesis of petroleum, natural gas etc.
- 1967, Bartholomew Nagy, Fundamental Aspects of Petroleum Geochemistry, page 338:
- As far as naphthogenesis is concerned, this hypothesis offers a reasonable explanation on how the first petroleum could have originated.
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