Abiogenic petroleum could also provide food for one of the most intriguing targets of all for the deep carbon observatory : the bacteria that live in the earth 's depths .

并非由生物体产生的石油也许可以为深碳观测站最令人感兴趣的目标提供食物：在地球深处生活的细菌。

If it turns out that fossil fuels are abiogenic , that probably means they are more abundant than western geologists think , and may be found in places hitherto thought unpromising .

如果试验证明化石燃料并非由生物体产生，那可能意味着它们比西方地质学家想象的还要多，而且可能会在迄今为止被认为没有希望的地方发现。

And one role of the deep carbon observatory will be to try to do it again in more sophisticated ways . If it turns out that fossil fuels are abiogenic , that probably means they are more abundant than western geologists think , and may be found in places hitherto thought unpromising .

地底碳观察的一个任务是用更精确的方法重复这个实验，如果最终证明化石燃料是和生物无关的，那意味着它们的存在可能比西方地质学家们想的更加广泛，可能在以前认为不可能的地方存在。