ABSTRACT

This chapter provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the fossil fuels and proposal of solutions. Exhaustible resources are natural resources that cannot be replenished by a natural process beyond the utilization rate of human beings. These are also called non-reproducible resources. Natural resources that can be supplemented beyond the utilization rate are called renewable resources. Fossil fuels were formed by deep-seated plants and animals deposited during the geological era, accumulated in the ground, and metamorphosed by the ground pressure and geothermal energy over the years. Until the dating method for radioactive isotopes was established, there were only fossils to know the era when the strata were formed. Among them, fossils of a particular species that existed only in a specific geological age are called indicator fossils and are used for dating each stratum. In structural geology, anticline is a fold like a mountain and an old stratum comes to the center.