Abiogenic petroleum could also provide food for one of the most intriguing targets of all for the deep carbon observatory : the bacteria that live in the earth 's depths .
并非由生物体产生的石油也许可以为深碳观测站最令人感兴趣的目标提供食物:在地球深处生活的细菌。
If it turns out that fossil fuels are abiogenic , that probably means they are more abundant than western geologists think , and may be found in places hitherto thought unpromising .
And one role of the deep carbon observatory will be to try to do it again in more sophisticated ways . If it turns out that fossil fuels are abiogenic , that probably means they are more abundant than western geologists think , and may be found in places hitherto thought unpromising .