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It's a God-awful smell affair.... is there life on Mars? Rocks ruled out as source of mystery methane on Red Planet

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erosion of oil shales

Someone should point out to these "scientists" that oil shales will only occur where there is a high density of organic life.

An oil shale is a sedimentary rock containing a high percentage of hydrocarbons from dead organic material.

If those oil shales were in a position to be subject to wind erosion - and therefore on the surface - then the debate about life on Mars would already be over.

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