Which geological periods does the world's oil come from?
Global oil basins forming over 500 million years of Earth history
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Province outlines from the
USGS World Petroleum Assessment
. Field data scraped from
Wikipedia
. Source-rock ages from
Klemme & Ulmishek (1991)
. Plate tectonics based on
Merdith et al. (2021)
. Attribution of interval fractions by Claude based on a lit review.