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Figure 8.12Relative ages and amounts of sedimentary rocks that contained the organic matter now found as oil and natural gas. Bars in the lower graph show the percentage of these petroleum source rocks found worldwide (height of the bar) within a given age range (width of the bar). Almost 60% of the total inventory was deposited during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic era.