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Using your knowledge of the age of lithospheric crusts and biogenous sediment accumulation, explain why it would be fruitless, not to mention expensive, to excavate for oil far off the coast, beyond the continental shelf.
 
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Because biogenous sediments have had less time to accumulate over the much younger oceanic crust found far offshore, it is not likely that the processes that convert deposited organic material to oil have had enough time to operate. Therefore, no oil is likely to be found in regions far away from continental shelves, where sedimentation rate and sediment thickness are both much greater.
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