[vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image css_animation=”” image=”2144″ border_color=”” img_link_large=”” link=”http://cabotsusq.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/625px-geologic_clock_with_events_and_periods-svg_1.png” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_single_image css_animation=”” image=”2145″ border_color=”” img_link_large=”” link=”http://cabotsusq.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/400moll.jpg” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row animation=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]When the fish and other organisms would die, they sank to bottom where algae and clay particles already sat. After hundreds of millions of years of this accumulation, the mixture of particles and organic matter turned into solid rock formations that entrapped natural gas in the formation we know today as the Marcellus Shale.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]