Unless those mountains were under water or covered in a tropical area a very long time ago, they likely wouldn’t have any oil in them because there’d be dead life forms in the sediment to get turned into oil.
Utah (the dark patch seen on your map below Idaho) has both the rocky mountains and oil because 50million years ago it was covered by lake uinta.
Unless those mountains were under water or covered in a tropical area a very long time ago, they likely wouldn’t have any oil in them because there’d be dead life forms in the sediment to get turned into oil.
Utah (the dark patch seen on your map below Idaho) has both the rocky mountains and oil because 50million years ago it was covered by lake uinta.